The first Caribbean religious chronicle: the “Account of the Antiquities of the Indians” (c.1496), by the hieronymite Ramón Pané

The document here presented is one of the first accounts made by Europeans about the Indians in the New World, just a few years after the arrival of Christopher Columbus. The author, Ramón Pané, was a hieronymite friar and stayed for a couple of years among the Taino Indians, producing the first acc...

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