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This novella is based to some extent on historical facts. It tells the Arawak’s story of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in October 1492 at his first American landfall on the tiny island of Guanahani in the Bahamas archipelago. This Arawak island was renamed San Salvador by the European navigator and explorer when he took possession of it in the name of the Spanish crown. This tale of the arrival of Columbus and his crew in their three sailing ships is related by an Arawak boy who describes the way of life of his people at the time of the arrival of these first Europeans in his part of the world more than five hundred years ago.

 

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The Discovery
by J.C. Squire

There was an Indian, who had known no change,
Who strayed content along a sunlit beach
Gathering shells. He heard a sudden strange
Commingled noise: looked up; and gasped for speech.

For in the bay, where nothing was before,
Moved on the sea, by magic, huge canoes,
With bellying cloths on poles, and not one oar,
And fluttering coloured signs and clambering clews.

And he, in fear, this naked man alone,
His fallen hands forgetting all their shells,
His lips gone pale, knelt low behind a stone,
And stared, and saw, and did not understand,
Columbus’s doom-burdened caravels
Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.

FM

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