The Emptied Amazon · claim AMZ-C075 · Observation rung · The 1542 account

Carvajal's Relación closes with an explicit protestation that everything he has written and told is true.

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Medina 1894, Introducción, p. xiii (archive.org djvu full text)

“y es verdad en todo lo que yo he escrito y contado”

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Supports· strongAMZ-E091

Carvajal's closing protestation of truth

what the source states: Medina quotes the end of the Relación: the friar wrote it to tell and make known the truth in all of it, to forestall those who might tell the pilgrimage otherwise, "y es verdad en todo lo que yo he escrito y contado".
what we infer: A truth-oath is a genre convention of conquest narratives and adds no diagnostic weight; it is recorded because it is the author's own stated purpose.
limitations: Self-attestation; conventional.

Gaspar de Carvajal (1542)Unverified

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