It was rather fascinating to read Vespucci's account of the people and life in Brazil.He seemed to be disturbed by hearing about or witnessing incidents of cannibalism.The idea of captives of war to be salted or pickled for meals seems quite stomach churning.Vespucci also mentions a man who ate about three hundred human bodies.These observations seem to create an insurmountable distance between the South Americans and the western readers of the time and introduce the idea of racial superiority.
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