The age of discovery. Prologue -- The Khoikhoi of the Cape of Good Hope -- The Aztecs -- The consequences of the Spanish Conquest -- The land of the rising sun -- Consequences. The great dying -- Noble savages: the Tahitians -- The Van Diemeners -- "The noble savage is a dog!" -- The word of God -- The Fuegians -- Missionaries at the end of the earth -- Interconnectedness. Furs and firearms: the Huron of Eastern Canada -- Northwest Coast Indians -- The Maori -- The colonization of New Zealand -- The legacy of inequality.