Casique and Columbus - A Memoir

Carol delany writes about this at length, and presents it as a beautiful example of platonic cross cultural love between these two men. A beargreen's writing makes it clear that the casique was motivated as much by real politique as anything else. The spaniards found themselves escorted to their guest quarters by a good thousand people, all naked, except for guacanagari who now wore a shirt and gloves that the admiral had given him. They talked of strategic matters, of the indians fierce rivals, the caribs, who carried bows and arrows, reminiscent of the spaniards, exhausted weapons, but made without any iron.