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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns. Publius Cornelius Tacitus		Monday Mar 31, 2025
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About Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo

	Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo
	Historia general y natural de las Indias, islas y tierra firme del Mar Oceano, 1535.

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One might have expected Christians to be less indifferent to the perils of casting the first stone. Here is a report from Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo, the official chronicler of the Indies under Holy Roman Emperor Charles V: 'Upon arriving there, since what they found to eat was so meager, some of these Christians, seeing themselves in extreme hunger, killed an Indian they had captured, and roasted the entrails and ate them; and they put a good part of the Indian to stew in a large pot in order to bring along something to eat in the ship's boat in which those who did this were travelling.'

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