{"date":"October 15","id":"10-15","intro":["“They are a people smooth and clean of body because of continually washing themselves—they eat all their enemies whom they kill or capture.” Amerigo Vespucci thus writes of the New World inhabitants."],"minutes":35,"readings":[{"author":"Amerigo Vespucci","end":44,"start":28,"volume":43,"work":"Account of His First Voyage"}],"slug":"october-15","status":"proofread","title":"First Families of America","url":"/harvard-classics/october-15/","words":7055}