During the fifteen century, Europeans needed to discover ocean courses to the Far East. Columbus needed to locate another course to India, China, Japan and the Spice Islands.
Then he brought them back to Spain, where they died. Of these 7 interpreters, 2 made it back, but also died on his second trip. I guess that's because they were exposed to all the new viruses, bacteria and germs that the Spaniards had. The natives had no immunity to these new diseases, and so his interpreters continued to die in those times (Middle Ages). In Europe, showering was believed to be somewhat demonic, and showering was blamed for the black plague and disease. The Church's decree stated that the only water they were supposed to use was holy water. According to some historical reports, the showers were carried out "once a week" at best. However, they varied from person to person, region and centuries,
So he always had interpreters, most of whom were nameless. On his fourth trip, he found another "Indian" who survived. He was baptized Juan Perez, a Central American who of course did not understand the native languages. There were hundreds, if not thousands, of languages across North America, other native translators were called Melchor, and Julian, who spoke Maya, there were quite a few translators from the islands and inland, including women, so he was in some ways was able to communicate with them if his interpreter was familiar with the language of the neighbor, I mean with neighbors Caribbean who try to speak Maya or other languages and vice versa, but they always had the same fate, died from diseases,
The most common diseases of the old world with which the natives were infected included smallpox, measles, flu influenza, diphtheria, whooping cough, chickenpox, mumps, cholera, typhoid, scarlet fever, yellow fever, bubonic plague and tuberculosis, although the researchers are not sure whether it is really a New World or Old World disease, since both sides have historical reports etc., the idea is that the explorers got syphilis from the natives, I know the sexual preferences of non Columbus and his Crew, but syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease. So if they pulled themselves together from women, the most logical assumption was rape, but who knows, it is known that the natives are viewed by Europeans as "savages" and their "civilized ways" If they liked men, they contracted syphilis by having homosexual activities with the local men, beings where homosexuality was not taboo and most local societies were generally open to sexuality. They even had words for the third gender.
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