In Jean De Lery’s stories, there is a theme prevalent throughout his writing dependent on his travels to Brazil and that theme has to do with culture shock upon his viewing and interpretation of the customs and culture of another country. In his book History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, he talks about “savages” a lot and in one particular passage he writes, “As for the civil order of our savages, it is an incredible thing,” which reflects his opinion on the customs that the Brazil natives showed. He hardly saw them fight with one another, but when he did, he saw how violent matters were dealt with. He says “it is a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” meaning that if one person hurt another person, then the kinsmen would apprehend the attacker and perform the exact attack on him that he gave to another person. Also, if the attacker killed the other person by stabbing then the family of the victim can have the attacker killed by stabbing. Lery’s writing also discusses how the Brazilian people live, how they move their villages every six months, how each family has their own house but the father keeps the mother and children in individual quarters, and how when the Brazilians move they take with them the largest pieces of wood and the indigenous plants that cover the home. He describes this tradition by saying, “If you ask them why they move their household so often, they simply answer that the change of air keeps them healthier, and that if they did other than what their grandfathers did.” This can be interpreted by believing that these natives of Brazil are a very traditional people who learn their customs, laws, and conventional behavior from the tales and lessons passed down from their ancestors, their fathers, and their grandfathers before them. Another interesting thing Lery writes about the Brazilian “savages” (as he calls them, which I interpret as a friend term meaning native people, and not the negative meaning associated with the word savages) is their friendly reception of strangers who visit upon them and their custom to ask strangers for their names. He writes about his experience meeting them for the first time and while they are naked and looking so different from French native Lery, they immediately surrounded him and asked to know his name while trying on his hat and dressing up in his sword and belts. All these examples illustrate just how interesting, accepting, and culturally interesting this experience was for Lery during his journey in 1554.