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Por donde me pareció darle nombre de Historia natural y moral de las Indias, abrazando con este intento ambas cosas.
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The speaker explains the work’s title by saying it covers two connected subjects: the natural world and human moral life in the Indies. “Embracing both things” means the undertaking is deliberately broad, including both kinds of description rather than focusing on only one.
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