Explorers and authors throughout time have written depictions of the mysterious cannibal. These accounts include intense detail as to how the cannibal lived and their cultures significance as a whole. In order to fully understand the cannibals’ society and the reasoning behind said society, the texts of these great authors must be critically analyzed. Clearly, cannibalism is an extremely complex civilization of which in depth conversations have taken place since the early 1400s. These discussions explore the possible reasoning behind the cultures actions as well as their political and social impact these peoples had over other civilizations. Vespucci depicts many aspects of the cannibals’ culture, particularly their consumption of human flesh as an act of revenge versus nourishment as well as their ecological dependence on fear.…show more content… Rather, this specific group of peoples, on the island of Trinidad, intake the human species as an act of revenge. Vespucci relays his findings in the piece with his witness; “they sail in certain vessels which they call ‘canoes’, and with these canoes they drag their pray from the islands or mainland, from tribes which are their enemies or are not allied with them.” (Vespucci 276) Here the reader is able to comprehend that these peoples capture their foe as an act of vengeance. The apprehending and consuming of their enemies one form of combat that the cannibals use to entice fear into their enemies and those they may