Juan de la Cosa, mortally wounded in Bahía de Cartagena de Indias by a poisoned arrow: a soldier standing next to him raises his sword while local inhabitants wielding burning arrows burn down huts in the background. Etching by I. Migliavacca after G. Marmocchi, 1842.

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Juan de la Cosa, mortally wounded in Bahía de Cartagena de Indias by a poisoned arrow: a soldier standing next to him raises his sword while local inhabitants wielding burning arrows burn down huts in the background. Etching by I. Migliavacca after G. Marmocchi, 1842.