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A European about to be attacked by an indigenous person,1509. Brazilian cannibal women? The discovery of the Savages of the New World by Ferdinand of Castile and Emmanuel of Portugal. From Diss buchlin saget wie die zwe durchluchtigste herre her Fernandus K. zu Castilien und herr Emanuel K. zu Portugal haben das weyte mor ersuchet unnd funden vil Insulen, unnd ein Nuwe welt von wilden nackenden Leuten, vormals unbekant, (This little book tells how the two most illustrious gentlemen, Fernandus K. of Castile and Emanuel K. of Portugal, explored the farthest reaches and found many islands and a new world of wild, naked people, previously unknown) by Amerigo Vespucci. [Strassburg, 1509].