and behind them, trembling and weeping, enter the beings never before seen. They are the few who have survived the colds, the measles, and the disgust for the Christians’ food and bad smell. Not naked, as they were when they approached the three caravels and were captured, they have been covered up with trousers, shirts, and a few parrots that have been put in their hands and on their heads and shoulders. The parrots, robbed of their feathers by the foul winds of the voyage, look as moribund as the men. Of the captured women and children, none has survived.
Columbus brought back people to Spain along with his other trophies; these people were expected to conform to Western clothes and food, pushing away their culture and humanity; most did not survive the journey across the Atlantic, and all of the captired women and children died before the ships reached Europe
