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"So tractable, so peaceable, are these people, that I swear to your Majesties there is not in the world a better nation. They love their neighbors as themselves, and their discourse is ever sweet and gentle, and accompanied with a smile; though it is true that they are naked, yet their manners are decorous and praiseworthy." "...una gente in Dios" (A people one in God, InDios, Indians.) Christopher Columbus, writing to the King and Queen of Spain, 1492. |
