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Show 9 and Crite/ties 2'22 the Wefi-Indies. A Ruin-ion of the Span-ill] Voyages 8 They rip7d up Women with Child, that Root and his Sleep, he commanded 'em to be prefently Itrangled. But a certain Officer whol'e Name I lhcy laid Branch might be dei‘troyd together. a Man ‘vVagers one with another, who lhould cleave down with his Sword molt dcxteroully at one blow, know, and whole Relations are well known at Seville, put Gags into their Mouths to hinder 7em from making a Noife, that he might not be depriv'd of er who lhould take his Head from his Shoulders moll the brutilh Pleafure of broiling them gently, till they breath'd out their Souls in this Torment. I have been an Eye-witnefs of all thefe Cruelties, and an infinite number of others which I pafs over in lilence. And becaule thefe poor People took all the care cleverly, or who lhould run a Man through after the molt artificial manner: They tore away Children out of their Mothers Arms, and dalh'd out their Brains againlt the Rocks, others they threw into the River, diverting tlremfelves with this bru- tilh Sport, and giving great lhouts while they faw 'em in this mifery: And to add infulting ScolFs to their Cruelty, advisid jem to ltruggle in the Water, they could to hide themfelves from a Generation of together upon their Lances: they fet up Gibbets, and hang'd up thirteen of thefe poor Creatures in Men to barbarous and wicked as the Spaniards, who had no Sentiment of Humanity, Honour, or Religion left, but-aé‘ted as if they were made for nothing elfe but to deftroy Mankind, to add further to their brutilh Cruelty, they taught Dogs to go a hunting honour to lefus Cbriit and his twelve Apoftles (as for thefe poor Wretches,and to devour 'em as if they they blal'phemouiiy expreih'd themfelves) : They kindled a great lire under thefe Gihbets, to burn had been Bealts. they had been provok‘d with f0 many unheard of thofe they had hang'd upon 'em: They cut off the Hands of thofe they fav'd alive, and tent 'em away Injuries, now and then kill'd one of them when they met with "em firagling; the Spaniards made a Law among themfelves to mallacre a hundred In» and try if they could fave themfelves from drowning. They held up the Bodies of Mothers and Children in that mil'erable condition, bidding 'em carry the News of their Calamities to thofe that were retir'd And becaufe the Indians after diam for every Spaniard they fhould kill. into the Mountains to efcape the Spaniards. They erefied a fmall Scaffold, fupported with i‘orks and Poles, upon which to execute their Chiefs, and thol'e ot the molt confiderable quality among 'cm.‘ When they had laid 'em at length upon this §mfiOlda EhCY kindled a gentle Fire, to make 'em #651 thfimiel'ves die gradually, till the poor VVretches utter the molt exquilite Pain and Anguilh, attended ‘t'fiflh her‘lble Screeches and Outcries, at length ex,li'l" d' I one. day law four or five Perfons of the "3:91:01" Rank in this Ifland burn'd after this mannerEmt tne dreadrui Cries this Torment extorted from trill}, 1r._tomnioding a Spanileraptain, and hintirifig ' , 13 0} Of 1116 Kirzgdomr cmmm'd in 5/1: [flmd t Hilipaniola. T_ U‘pzmiola contains five great Kingdoms, the .5. Kings of which were very powerful, and gorern"d all the other Chiefs, whole number is very great: yet there are fome independent Countries" which have their particular Lords, and are not iimicé‘t to any of thofe Kings. One of there Kings they cail gllfgllz'l, which lignilies a Mom, his Name b-‘tnu' .V".l--I |