رأيتُ فتىً من البحّارة يشتري منهم حِراباً بقطع من الصحون المكسورة والزجاج المحطّم.

“I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.”Christopher Columbus — Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain (1827)