Amerigo Vespucci’s Account of His First Voyage, By Amerigo Vespucci

They are a people smooth and clean of body because of continually washing themselves --- they eat all their enemies whom they kill or capture." Amerigo Vespucci thus writes of the New World inhabitants. (Volume 43, Harvard Classics)

Amerigo Vespucci returns from first American voyage, Oct. 15, 1498.