Many of the etchings are pretty gruesome. Still it shouldn’t be left out of history. These aren’t mythical illustrations, he was documenting what he saw and even wiki says this... although a debatable source no doubt... historians also seem to take his work as documentary. Interesting how wealthy people will buy his work at auction for a very high price but we hear nothing about these encounters in education. Edit: documenting what voyagers saw

Many of the etchings are pretty gruesome. Still it shouldn’t be left out of history. These aren’t mythical illustrations, he was documenting what he saw and even wiki says this... although a debatable source no doubt... historians also seem to take his work as documentary. Interesting how wealthy people will buy his work at auction for a very high price but we hear nothing about these encounters in education.