Examples Of Christopher Columbus's Travel Logs

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Christopher Columbus’s travel logs offers us a miniscule glimpse of a very complex world the Taino people lived in the Caribbean in 1492. Although not very good and biased, it is however the best one we have. Columbus was diligent in his descriptions of the things he saw, peoples he met, foods he was introiduce to and so on. However his logs inundated with scores of mistakes, mostly based on cultural biases. On some occasions the Admiral mistook the island of Cuba to be a continent for example. In another occasion he misunderstood and believed that Cacike Mayobanex (Ciguayo Chieftan of Samana, DR) and the Cibao valley were actually islands…. Europeans for the most part were unable to communicate fully with the natives, using mostly sign language