On the first page of Howard Zinn's "A Peoples History of The United States" there is a quote from Columbus's log book, which reads: They willingly traded us eveything they owned....They were well built, with good bodies and handsome features....They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took the edge and cut thmselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane....They would make fine servants....With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.