The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their …

Christopher Columbus
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The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed. ✨ Christopher Columbus: Journal of the First Voyage. Book by Christopher Columbus (journal entry dated November 6, 1492), 1492-1493.
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