TRAVELS 🙝
"Be it understood, then, that I am writing about things which
I have neither seen nor had to do with nor learned from others--which,
in fact, do not exist at all and, in the nature of things, cannot exist."
--Lucian of Samosata, A True Story, transl. by A. M. Harmon
❧ This entry is titled Travels, and will be a good place for quotations from or about Histories, Travelogues, adventures,
and whether the map is the same as the territory.
Vespucci, Amerigo; Letter to a "Magnificent Lord", on his first voyage; c. 1500: "We did not find that these people had any laws; they cannot be called Moors nor Jews, but worse than Gentiles. For we did not see that they offered any sacrifices, nor have they any place of worship. I judge their lives to be Epicurean." transl. Clements R. Markham, C.B., F.R.S.,
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