Antonio Pigafetta, a Florentine navigator whom went with Magellan regarding the very first voyage around the planet, penned, upon his passage through our southern lands of America, a strictly accurate account that nevertheless resembles a endeavor into fantasy

The solitude of Latin America

That he had seen hogs with navels on their haunches, clawless birds whose hens laid eggs on the backs of their mates, and others still, resembling tongueless pelicans, with beaks like spoons in it he recorded.

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