Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán, Cautiverio feliz (Chile, 1673)

A Spanish captain taken by the Mapuche in 1629 and released alive later wrote the book arguing that his captors had treated him better than his countrymen treated them. It is an officer's brief against the war he served in: unjust because greed is its object, endless because slavery is its instrument. The assembly that deliberated over his life is described from inside, with its procedure and vocabulary. Written 1673, printed for the first time in 1863.