Travels and Discoveries

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2. SirJohn Mandeville came across some very interesting people groups on his journey. The reason they are so interesting is because, they are very different. For example, on the Isle of Dondun, people eat eachother to figure out if they should be allowed to live. The devil within these people gives the final say regarding the life or death sentence. Another type of "people group" found on another isle have no heads and their eyes are on their shoulders! On Mandevilles other journey, he came across other folk who all had flat, ugly faces. They had two small holes for eyes and a small mouth, with no lips.
Of course, after reading about the first group of folks that Mandeville came across on his journey, I realized that these "people groups" were not real. While reading, I couldnt find any similarities to real people groups, but instead, I just found them to be completely absurd and random. My overal response to this journey is that, it was all imagined and made up! It was rather random and I do not really know how to respond to the absurd "creatons"!
3. Columbus expected a world somewhat, untouched by reality. A world where people were truly free. Free enough to not worry about worldly things and to concentrate on the important things. I do think that his religious background did influence his expectations of the new world. For example, "the people of this island, and of all the others... all go naked, men and women... there are palm-groves, and tree's, and fruits, and plants therein." The description found within "Concerning the First Voyage" are at first, very parallel to the garden of Eden, the place human life all began.