Late 12th - Early 13th Century A.D. PREPARER'S NOTE: Originally written in Latin in the early years of the 13th Century A.D. by the Danish historian Saxo, of whom little is known except his name.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo
From the Rio Negro to the Andes there is a large region, inhabited entirely by savages of whom little is known, except that they are mostly cannibals, and kill all their first-born children.
— from The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
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