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Show 32 A Relation of tire Spaniflr Voyager and CmeZties in the Weft-Indies. 3'; about filexico. scooo by violent Deaths in and In the fpace of a few Years there were abov: four or five Kingdoms, that 5ooooo Slaves draWn out of this Province, the the} fihis Country contains ngdom of Spain for Ex- Ki were all born free: and during the War that Was come not {hort of the e were nty of all things : Her made againlt 'em, there dy'd about fifty or fixty tent, Fertility, and Ple populous than Toledo, Seville, thoufand belides thefe: the reft were condemn'dto Cities to be feen more , or Barcelona, for tho all thel'e cruel Slavery, in which a confiderable number dy'd Vallidolid, Saragojfa Inhabitants, thofe of the everyday. There are about four or five thoufand Cities are well ltor'd with populous. The Country People Hill to be found in this Province 5 but it was new World are yet more s is above 1800 League once one of the belt peOpled Countries in all Ame- ‘of which I am now treatingniards have kill'd above nea: And in a little time in all appearance the tell in compafs. Here the Spa Fire and Sword, and oWill be defiroy'd by the ill Treatment they conti- four Millions of People by n, Women and Chilther violent Deaths, both Me nually fuffer. They call dren, Within the fpace of 480 Leagues. unjufl: and the Countries they have got by their they encruel Wars, their Conquefts, into which ting the Of New Spain; 'ter?d with the bloody defign of extermina Worfe than Inhabitants, and behav'd themfelves ian Enemies of the Chrifl NEm Spain was difcover'd in the year 1517‘, and Turks, or the greatelt e. I don't now reckon in the gan to ra- Name wbuld have don the Year following the Spaniards be y have kill'd, fuch as have pe~ the fe tho of er mb nu ts, they tho tan abi Inh re the lac mal to and 6 V38 It, y, or dy'd under the Hardfhips of ver Sla in h'd ril y. ntr Cou s thi ple peo to pretendyto go ON Of Europe l Opprellions. No Tongue is capa‘ ica ann Tyr ir the ha fuc d to iv' ns arr fio ef pr The" VIOIences and Op bing to the life all the horrid Villanies cri def of ble or d Go to her eit ard heighi' that they had no reg thefe bloody-minded Men. They re Men and perpetrated by I}: King, but_f0Y§10t bOth that they Weun the (leclar'd Enemies of Mankind, and. be to m fee e y, ther tr s Co o thi int me y ca ce the E851 Lfglafls- Sin le and ben nothing but Rapine and Spoil, Maflaeres, V' l urning of Cities, nothing but Tyranny and 1p ence‘, 10 that they have in a fhort timedepw ngdoms from one end to iildtzhteii and turned vaft Ki 0f the Villanies and e TFmembrancc has call: fuch a Terror Crueitlicq Th [hex-.6) fited Nat ml , th e ‘mindsmmof_ in" ives, that they Can't think the f detaISpamard Without trembling. They have not contrary Formenting 'em 5 on anthe ihe r re {1 Off :n g Worfe and worfe, d their Perfe0130,12" ent every year, the fi Euom The Spaniards fin‘ge dei‘troy'd Y r emerd ""0 N61? Spam have 450000 a8: as if they were deftin'd to deftroy the WhoenHuman Race: And how accuratly foe‘ver one deavours to relate the Cruelties and Ravages of the be Spaniards, the thoufandth part of it cannot utter'd, |