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Show 60 and Craeltie: in the Well-Indies. A Relation of the Spanilh Voyage; 61' he this day, while thofe profligate Wretchcs Ilillle away an immenfe Treafure with him; at laft fame Obl'tacles in the way of their Converfioz was, condemn'd to be banilh'd, and dyed in his the When thefe Friers were confirain'd to retire outc Exile without lhewing the lealt token of Repen~ the Country, the Indians began to imbrace the Chi tance. Thofe who fncceeded him went on to maf- tian Religion with a great deal of Zeal and Fervm facre thofe Indians that he and other Tyrants had but being unhappily depriv'd of all means of ll fpared; they made both the common Peeple, and itrnfiion, they wither'd like tender Plants, for war the Nobility of this Province fuffer moft horrible Torments, to oblige "em by the violence of their pain to difcover their Gold : they laid this Counn try wal‘te for above 40 Leagues, not leavrng one foul alive 3 tho this Province was well fiock'd with of Water. 0f the Province of St. Martha. Inhabitants before their arrival. To give a particular Relation of all the ExtravaHE Province of St. Martha was famous fortl gances, Mallacres and Defolations, of all the Impie= rich Golden Mines that are near it, and lo ties and Villanies committed by the Spaniards in this the fruitfulnefs of its Soil. The People are nume Province againfl: God, againlt the King, and againfi': tons, and very skilful in getting Gold out of ti the innocent Indians, would require a large HiltoMines, which eafily engag'd the Spaniards to go til ry: I mull therefore content my felf to pals over ther, and that in great numbers; they made contl many Circumltances after a curfory manner. The nual Excurlions over all this fine Country to raw Bilhop of this'Province, writing to the King of and fpoil it', they mallacred val'c numbers of ti Spain in the year 1341, among other things thus inhabitants, took away all their Gold, and fill'd thei expi‘elles himfelf : Great Sir, To redrefs the Grievances Ships,which ferv'd 'em for Magazines,with the Boot; of this Province, it ought to be deliver'd from the Ty'lhey {000 laid Waite this flourilhing Province by ranny of theft that rat/age it, and committed to the the Robberies and Villanies they committed: the; Care of Pei-forts of Integrity, who will treat the Inhadid the greatelt mifchief upon the Sea-coafts, bl bitants with more hindnefs and humanity 5 for if it he they foon after pierc'd higher up into the Countfl left to the mercy of the Gomernoars, who commit all forts where they endeavour'd to make a Settlement. Tli of Outrage: with impunity, 'tniill he deflroy'd in a very LQURETY being rich and fertile, divers Spanilh Cap little time. The fame Bilhop farther adds in his Let.- rains fuccellively invaded it with their Troops, all ter : The ill Conduit of the Governoars may well engage the left was Itill more cruel and inhuman than hi your silajefly to deprive 9em ahfolutely of their Places, Predecellor. They feem'd ambitions to outvieoni to relieve the/i) Provinces; and if this courfe he not another m‘the Enormity' of their Crimes and Villt taken, ll}: t‘ll-J'l/(ljlf will be incurable. I am neee/fitateil to let your Zlmjefly know, that the Spaniard: who mes. {nth-3‘19" 1520, a Spanilh General attende- em; into this New l‘Vorld, live here rather like Devilx wzth a great many Souldiers enter'd into this PW than Chriflians, thty neither ferrve God nor the King; i'mce With a refolution of ruiningI it entirely. ll continued there for {even years together, and carl'ili at? ""7 violate all the Laws of God and .Men with lmtamix- T)" |