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Show .4 Relation of the Spanifli Voyage: and Crookies in the Weft-Indies. fcem to undertake their long Voyages and Journeys on purpofe to precipitate an infinite number of Souls into Hell, that were redeem'd by the Blood of ‘ the Son of God. \ minable means they us'd to this end, ihew'd they had no regard either to God or their Prince -, nay, 74 7§ they feem'd to have utterly forgotten that them~ felves were Men, having put on fuch an inhuman and favage Piercenefs, or to come yet nearer to their true Charaé‘cer, they appear'd like (0 many Devils in the lhape of Men. Of the Kingdom of Vencuela. IN theyear; 1326, the King of Spain, abus'd by the Artifices of form: ill~defigning People,iwho made ufc of a thoufand fetches and excufes to conceal from him the great Devaflations the Spaniards had made in the new World, to thegreat prejudice of the Glory of God, the Chriitian Religion, and the salvation of the poor Indians, gave the Government of the Kingdom of Venguela, which is bigger than all Spain, to feveral Flemifl: Merchants, with full jurifdiétion and Power to do what they pleas'd there, and to difpofe of the Country as they thought convenient. They accordingly enter'd it with three hundred Men, and found the People there to be of a meek, traétable and peaceful Difpolition,as indeed the Indians generally are when left to their natural Temper, and not enrag'd by the Abufes f0 often offer'd ‘em. Thefe were {till more brutih and cruel than thofe Spaniards of whom we have been hitherto fpeaking: They exceeded Tygers, Wolves and Lions in Barbarity, when they faw themfelves. Maiters of this great Kingdom, in pOlfellion of it, and the Jurifdiétion of it entirely put They ran through thefe rich and pleafant Provinces, and initantly laid the Country wafte for forty Leagues together, wherein were fruitful Vallies of; a prodigious extent, and Towns and Villages ftor'd with great quantities of Gold. The deitruétion they made was f0 general, that fcarce a Man was left to carry the News of the Cruelties they exercifed in this Kingdom to other Provinces: none but thofe that hid themfelves in Caves and Holes of the Earth, could efcape the Sword of thefe furious and inhuman Creatures. They invented new kinds of Puniihments wherewith to torment 'em, to force "em to part with their Gold by difcovering the places where they had hid it: After this manner they deftroy'd three or four Millions of People. The lnftances of three or four Facts will fufficiently dill cover how thefe Brutes behav'd themfelves in this Kingdom. One of the firfl: things they did, was to feize him whom they look'd upon as the Soveraign Prince of the whole Kingdom; they loaded him with Irons to get the more Gold out of him: they endeavour'd by the Tortures to which they put him, to make mto their hands: they thought they had ample lit him difcover the places where he had fecur'd his Treafures; but he had the good fortune to efcape hefty N? do there whatever they pleas'd, and that their hands, and fly into the Mountains: His Sub» they might fatisfy their Covetoufnefs at any rate, ieéis furroundeci him, and hid him in the Woods, but their number was too great to be long conceal'd :: 10 that the Spaniard: purfued 'em with Swords in their hands, and made a dreadful Maffacre among and by allothe methods they could imagine, tho never {0 "(Hurt They took no care but how to heal) "P Vaft Treafures of Gold and Silver 5 and the abo‘ 3 minablf cm |