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Show 4 47251 Crap/tics m {be "Veil-Indies. t: ‘ (1 r A Relation o ' 1/1» Spandhl no hut iiilfjiiyiii" vei‘Y fertileand populous, ‘ and walte by the like means. iih‘aj 5' fpace of Time, a'oove fifty Millions hive (ii.:.::.l i‘l ;(i~ W (a: thele Countries. The Spaniards who invaded there llles, mil ii: iii oil of their Chriltianity, made ufe of two writs principally to exterminate the Inhabitants: the l?! which was by an unqut and bloody \Var carried on 1,, I; m 1 111', , Wm, 11.1 and Hijiumiolii on the l\(llll1' (. if], hm . R "h ich are cominonlyti , . ‘i" 4\‘ number, wh ul :‘iliryiifli‘n'ciii by, Tim, ants, of which the lenll lruiti .. i "mm, or ii». Plenty than the Royal {Jarden o l-l‘ » '-«~~; are deltitute of inhabitants, th he": i.tx.‘-,Wz,‘.,_;],,y.c an Air as men can breath in. \‘v with the ntmolt l'iarbarity and Cruelty 3 the other was that (ieteitzil)le Policy which infpird them to nailircre all that had any remains of liberty, or endeavour'd to Ihake ofl‘their 'I‘yrannical Yoke, and to free themfelves from to unjul‘t and intolerable a Slavery 3 for this the bravelt, molt potent, and molt he i e were firlt landed in there llles, ther tl‘ey ilii misfit) 1)rt hundred thoufaud Souls-7 they cut y pi i I, it I]; {gt-Cat part of tliele, and carried amt- s ot / 1/1"?!" t... iorce to make 'em work 1n the Mine pious Perfons einhznked to Vint their: warlike Nations oil‘ the Indians attempted. \V'hen tonne u: cm, Ides after the Ravage the Spanzams had made ti out they found but eleven People left there: It w :is erthe'motives of Charity and Compalhon they und e to took this ditheult and perilous Voyag; , in hop Jeinltruet thefe poor Creatures in the knowledgr, or tizs Chrilt. Above go Illes near that or St- .701"? were entirely depopulated, tho of a vall ljxtmli 10 that there is fearee an lnhabitant to be found in them. "hen the Spaniards had kill'd all the Men in the "in, they IiitFer'd the Women and Children to live, but with the impolition of a Yoke f0 cruel and infupportahle, that their Condition was rendred as miferable as that of Beafts. A multitude of other particular methods were taken for the deltruetion of thefe poor Ame?ricam, but they may be reduc'd in general to thole two we have mentioned. The Gold and Silver thefe People had in their pol"- As for the Continent 'tis certain, and what I. my felf know to be true, that the Spaniards have rumcd ten Kingdoms there, bigger than all Spam hi the. commillion of all forts of Barbarity and unheard of feflion, was the Eliotive that violently prompted the Europeans to perfecute and deltroy 3cm. The earnelt delire they had of fpeedily enriching themielves in order to procure fuch Honour and Dignity as in; exceeded their Condition, infpir'd "em with all this inhumanity. In aword, their Avarice and AmbiJ Cruelties. They have driven away or kill'd all the Inhabitants ', fo that all thele Kingdoms are (leQlfile to this day, and reduc'd to a molt deplorable CODE tion were arriv'd to an excefs beyond Imagination 5 dition, tho this was formerly the belt 1190,11" the immenfc Riches of the new \Vorld the tracta- (Country in the World. We dare ullert,wr1tnt>ut fear of incurring the reproach of cr-zafzecrat mg, will? ble, tweet, and good difpofition or the Iirztz'z'enx, which render'd a defcent into their Country enl‘y to any that would attempt it, have occalion'd all the Ravage and Spoil, (ill the horrid h'itllidCTCS and Crucities which the Spaniards have caus'd :'em to iiifi'er. in the {pace of thofe forty years in which the bptl‘rfi‘ . ards exercis'd their intolerable Tyranny in this new \Vorld, they uniui'lly put to death above twelve Millions ot'People, counting; Men, women, and Children: and it may he ufiirm'd 'ruitliont inuny to bitants of thefe lflands, that I may aver, without Truth, upon a iul't Calculation, that during Ill" B 3 {pace """w " Run-«Lu ‘VW'W‘fluuumW-u» Ila,3mmmm.-iwonumum-"w Mn"), I! They made. 370 little account of the mifernhle Inha- tea r |