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Archive for April 7th, 2010

Making Wine and Eating Gold – The History of the New World

More from La Historia del Mondo Nuovo di M. Girolamo Benzoni Milanese, Venetia, 1565 (an English translation published by the Hakluyt Society, 1857, and extracted below, is here in its entirety) Of those whom they caught alive especially the captains they used to tie the hands and feet throw them down on the ground and [...]