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CANNIBALS ARE PEOPLE, TOO!

Here are some of the maps relevant to this story:

1502 Cantino map. First real map with the "New World". Mentions "Rio de Sao Francisco, Baia de Todos Santos, Porto Seguro, Rio de Brasil, and of course, cannibals (twice).

Another Ruysch map. South America as "Terra Sancte Crucis sive Mundus Novus" (1708).

The Inscription reads: At different places this region is inhabited, and it is supposed by many to be another world. Women and men appear either entirely naked or clad with interwoven leaves and the feathers of birds of various colors. They live together in common without any religion or kin. They are continually at war among themselves. They eat the human flesh of captives. They exercise so much in the salubrious air that they live more than one hundred and fifty years. They are rarely sick, and then they cure themselves only with the roots of plants. There are lions here, and serpents and other terrible monsters are found in the forests. Very large quantities of pearls and gold are in the mountains and rivers. From here brazilwood, or verzini, and cassia are carried away by the Portuguese (www.henry-davis.com)

Grynaeus and Munster They go overboard with very graphic details of cannabalism. South America is "America Terra Nova" e "Prisilia".

Fryies, 1939. Another banquet. Brazil is "Terra de Papagalli" (Land of Parrots)

Munster and his Cannibals again. North America is "Terra Florida" and "Baccaleurum"

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