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From "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" By Dee Brown
One of the first letters Christopher Columbus wrote to the King and Queen of Spain upon arriving in San Salvador - The New World. So tractable, so peaceful 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 by a smile, and though it is true that they are naked, yet their manners are decorous and praise worthy.
From " Inca and The Spaniard, Pizarro and The Conquest of Peru" By Albert Marrin
The Incas governed in such a way that in all the land neither a thief, nor vicious man, nor bad dishonest woman was known. The men all had honest and profitable employment. The lands and mines, and all kinds of property were so divided that each man knew what belonged to him, and there were no lawsuits...............By our bad example, we have destroyed this well governed people...............All this I tell..........to discharge my conscience of a weight. that I may no longer be a party to these things. And I pray God to pardon me, for I am the last to die of all discoverers and conquistadors................and therefore I now do what I can to relieve my conscience. Last will and testament of Mancio Sera de lajesma September 15, 1589
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