[watcher1]

Europeans, Indians said, were physically weak, sexually untrustworthy, atrociously ugly, and just plain dirty.

Still true of today's euro-peons

civilization was so wonderful, why were its inhabitants leaving?

True!

ecologists' claims about terrible Amazonian land were based on very little data.

True too. I've seen it with my own eyes.

Great article. Too much to comment on all of it.

[yankeedame]

Europeans, Indians said, were physically weak, sexually untrustworthy, atrociously ugly, and just plain dirty. Still true of today's euro-peons

The weak would never have survived the voyage. As for the others (untrustworthy, ugly, dirty)...a case of the pot calling the kettle black? And besides, the type of men who sailed to the New World were not exactly the Beau Brummel or Oscar Wilde type, now where they?

...civilization was so wonderful, why were its inhabitants leaving? True!

Nonsense. They weren't leaving civilization. If they were, they would have burned their boats, etc. determined never to return.

[Labyrinthos]

Europeans, Indians said, were... and just plain dirty.

D@mn French.