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In all the primary sources one thing they all have in common is, that none viewed the exploration in a truly positive light, none used honorific language to describe colonization and exploration. In "A Brief Account of The Destruction of the Indie" by Bartolome de las Casas his view was in favor of the natives, stating they were welcoming and excited for new visitors but, the new visitors were really brutish beasts who "barbarously murdered" everyone one of them, even children. While his account depicts conquistadors and colonizers as pure evil, "The Ship of Fools" by Alexander Barclay makes a mockery and satire of it. In his work he believes explorers and colonizers gain all this land but, truly learn nothing from it, they do it for just
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