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Christoph Kolumbus lernte auf seinen Amerikareisen auf Haiti die schwebenden Betten der Eingeborenen kennen und benannte diese 1492 mit dem westindischen Wort hamaca.
Columbus did not first encounter hammocks on Haiti. His journal mentions “hamacas” on November 3, 1492, while he did not reach Hispaniola/Haiti until early December 1492.
Full reasoning
The location in this sentence is wrong.
- The article itself ties Columbus’s hammock observations to October 17, 1492 and November 3, 1492.
- But Columbus did not reach Hispaniola (the island that today contains Haiti) until early December 1492.
- A transcription of Columbus’s first-voyage journal records the word "hamacas" on Saturday, 3rd of November: "That day many canoes came ... with the nets in which they sleep, called hamacas."
- Independent historical summaries place Columbus first in the Bahamas and Cuba before Hispaniola; Britannica summarizes that he landed in the Bahamas in October 1492, reached Cuba on October 29, and reached Hispaniola on December 6.
- A Bahamian museum history likewise identifies the first people Columbus met on October 12, 1492 as the Lucayan Taíno of the Bahamas and notes that Lucayans wove net-like beds called "hamacas."
So the evidence shows that Columbus encountered hammocks before reaching Haiti/Hispaniola; saying he learned of them "auf Haiti" is inaccurate. A safer wording would be that he encountered them among Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean during the first voyage, before arriving at Hispaniola.
3 sources
- The journal of Christopher Columbus (during his first voyage, 1492-93) and documents relating to the voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real
“Saturday, 3rd of November ... That day many canoes came to the ships, to barter with cotton threads and with the nets in which they sleep, called hamacas.”
- Britannica LaunchPacks | Christopher Columbus
“Christopher Columbus and his crew landed in the Bahamas in October 1492. Columbus reached Cuba on October 29. On December 6 he reached the island of Hispaniola.”
- The Lucayans - Grand Bahama Museum
“At dawn on October 12, 1492 he wrote in his journal...” and “Lucayans wove net-like beds called ‘hamacas.’”