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Show A Relation of tile Spanilh V0742" I2 Mal Cfaculties in the Welt-Indies. 3; larger than Portugal.) and more fruitful, and was to infnare him. He was put in a Ship to be laid {tor-"d with yait numbers of Inhabitants; there are e icarried into Spain, and there were at the fame tim divers Mountains init, and fevers] Mines abounding fix Vellels in the Port ready to fet Sail, when all on with Gold and Copper. The Name of the King a fudden there role a horrible Tempei‘t, which of this Country was szmnagari, who had divers batter"d the Ships to pieces and funk 'em, with all in this Conn. Lords under his juril‘dif‘tion. 'Twas the Spaniards that were on board. King Caonaho try that famous Pilot who hrit dit‘coverd America loaded with Chains perilh'd, together with the landed. Guacamgarireceiv'd him with all imagi- VelTel in which he was embarqu'd. The Almighty nable Hofpitality and Civility; he made the belt was pleas'd to difplay his hill and terrible judgment Entertainment he could fer all the Spaniards who by this fudden Storm, in deftroying {0 many Spaaccompanied him: when their Ship was funk, they niards, and thereby punilhing the Crimes they had were receiv'd at this Prince's Court as kindly asii committed in ‘abuliug the poor Indians. Thislxiihg they had been in the Houfes of their own natural had three or four Brothers, all of 'em valiant and Relations: here they met with all manner of Re couragious Princes; who being much provok'd at irelhxnents and Recruits the Country afforded, which the uniul't (ilaptivity of the King, their Brother and were given "em with great Exprellions of Humanity arid Companion ou the account of their Hardihips. l. h1s lung atterwards to fecure himi‘elf from the barbarous llfage of the Spaniards, when they bevan to coshmit their Malliicres in his Countrv, abandobn'd his i":lllcf)~l.l0‘rll, and was forc'd to retreat into tome or the remote Mountains, where he died with the latiggues and Inconveniencies to which he was ex- iios d1. 'l‘ihofe Indian Lords that depended on him ()ii‘h no )tzter "‘3' ~» ~' ' .. ~ horrible Slaveryid :iiIii‘linihebSE/iifillfl? 1ind-(ad‘s? retiuc l . . am: d‘nod 'em. aSovereign, and inform'd of the Ravage and Mai cres the Spaniards had made in other neighbouring Kingdoms, and after all hearing the News of the fatal End of their Brother, betook themlelves to Arms, and fought means of revenging theml‘elyes on their Enemies. The Spaniards attack'd 'em with their Cavalry, which is very formidable to the Indians, whom they foon conquer'd, and made f0 prodigious a Slaughter among 'em, that half the Kingdom was depopulated and became defert after this Defea :. ){rzmhrua is the 'eurth Kingdom of Hi/lxanioliz, and ., ,‘fl‘z‘gimm is. the third Kingdom of this Illand, illEiyi‘illélWilli-f iifil‘lm'y'h bi'fhfim‘ "1W 3‘" i s as it were the Heart and Centre of all this iiisnd; I he language of it is the molt relin'd and polite. 'l he People of this Kingdom are the molt cixv'iliz'd, the and their Manners more cultivated it? ran rm}. ("l-Imam w~ the K' e t e. eit Sugar innerm- {1m Kinnsa‘gorh . mg; of it, who fiirpais d all thrill: of Riches, of his liinodorlin leiard of l‘isflPower,‘ the other parts of the Country: :md there are a greater number of great lords and Perl'ons; of Quality mom with whichohe waanh thc EClpect'and ( erev not Lemme 01 his G S onou: atall d. iIll‘S Plimce d'ill‘rullmg when Prick: the vaniqugrijuiiorw anion}: "em. Their: l‘eopleare better i‘hap'd, and have a finer Albeit than rho‘fe of the other l'iiugdams. The King's blame was Is‘e',ie.~,',i,?n, he had :1 iiiz g‘riixfd in his Quidl Houfe bi‘illnfl U.) play mm, M) L j the Artrhces they had laid Sitter (rill'd Aizaraml ‘, both of 7'em he; p'd their lav ‘ervv C \ 4'1"}: |