In Voyage to the Land of Brazil, de Lery goes into great detail about the cannibalistic practices of the Tupinamba natives. After describing these ceremonies and rituals they have for the prisoners of war, de Lery writes, “So let us henceforth no longer abhor so very greatly the cruelty of the anthropophagous—that is, man-eating—savages. For since there are some here in our midst even worse and more detestable than those who, as we have seen, attack only enemy nations, while the ones over here have plunged into the blood of their kinsmen, neighbors, and compatriots, one need not go beyond one’s own country, not as far as America, to see such monstrous and prodigious things” (133). I found this passage very interesting because here de Lery is speaking directly to his fellow Frenchmen and condemning them. He claims they are no better than the “man-eating savages” as he calls them. At least the Tupinambas only attack those who are their sworn enemies. However, in France, Frenchmen are attacking fellow Frenchmen. De Lery references the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre in which thousands of French Huguenots died at the hands of the French Catholics. The Frenchmen are barbaric to each other; de Lery claims they are no better than the cannibals. De Lery’s book does more than just map Brazil and the natives he encounters there, but becomes a reflection on the French.