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The Tempest
Montaigne's
Of
Cannibals (1580):
“It is a nation, would I answer Plato, that hath no kind of
traffic, no knowledge of letters, no intelligence of
numbers, no name of magistrate, nor of politic superiority;
no use of service, of riches, or of poverty; no contracts,
no successions, no partitions, no occupation but idle; no
respect of kindred but common, no apparel but natural, no
manuring of lands, no use of wine, corn, or metal. The very
words that import lying, falsehood, treason, dissimulations,
covetousness, envy, detraction, and pardon, were never heard
of amongst them” (translation by John Florio).
Stachey’s
A True Reportory of the Wracke (1609)
Richard
Hakluyt,
Discourse of Western Planting, 1584
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