What do these writers see as the central differences between “Indians” and the “Spanish”? How are these differences imagined through sexual and other social practices? How would you characterize the ideas of European masculinity in some of these writings?

In many ways, Vespucci’s portrayal of the new world sounds like Columbus’s, even though they are writing about regions nowhere near each other. What sorts of conventions for representing the new world can we see repeated in these two letters? Why is it important that they are so similar? Are they different in any important ways?