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Remains of ancient buildings from the time of Lanzarotto Malocello. (Lanzarote).

people”; noticeably, what shocked most the European explorers was that
the aboriginal women practiced polyandry, “Most of them have three hus-
bands who take monthly turns to serve them.” (Cionarescu, le Canarien,
text G, 70, 1980:67).
The meetings of different civilizations always involve an unfavourable
outcome for the less technologically developed civilization; within a few
years, the Majos succumbed culturally to the Europeans, as evidenced by
the episode reported by Cabrera Pérez, Perera Betancor, and Tejera Gaspar,
in the aforementioned Majos. La primitiva población de Lanzarote, pp.
307-308, according to which king Guadarfia, having become Luis Guadar-
fia after his conversion, asked Béthencourt for some land to cultivate and
the Norman gave him a house and 300 acres of land in the centre of the
island, giving rise to the village of Zonzamas, which would be inhabited
for many centuries, inasmuch as its remains were still visible even at the
th
end of the 18 century.