Lazaro de Ribera's report to the Audiencia de Charcas on the capacity of the Moxos Indians (1788)

In a report of 22 February 1788 the governor of Moxos told the Audiencia de Charcas that a Mojo Indian writes the annals of his town on a board or a piece of cane by means of signs, and that a critic who called that barbarous would have called Newton an idiot for writing in strokes. Claims of Indian incapacity, he added in April, are "una ficcion teatral, fabricada por la tirania o por la necedad".