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Show 1 16 A Relation of the Spanilh Voyages Md Cree/tie; 1'12 t/Je WEE-Indies. . II7 hard as they did before. For the Spaniards are very ambitious to command the Indians as their abfolnte Slaves, and to be obey'd, refoeéied, and even ador'd by 'em 3 and therefore omit. noth ing that may hinder them from becoming Chriflians. fors be oblig'd to take the fame Oath : And that your Maiel‘ty take care to make it one exprefs Article of your lalt Will and Teflament to engage your Succef. ibis to obferve this Law, and to make othersobferve it, as much as lies in their Pt wer. Divers that. this i‘crvation pationof reafons are afterwards proclqu to flier Sometimes 3 or 4 Towns or Villages are given Policy is of ablolute necellity for the Pre- up to the drfpofial of a certain number of ts,°.1?3‘i}¢'}‘a'f of Anmim, and to hinder the utter Extri- and the Inhabitants difirihnted among 'em to form": . the Indians. more, to others fewer :, and it often hap'pens [list The infatiable Covetonl‘nefs of the:Spmzzards, who t\l'oman falls to one .hr‘ian's friars, whofe {-iusbaiiii mind nothing but to amafs together heaps of Trea- .hlls to the Lot of another, and their Children to fore, makes 'em unwilling to filiit‘t‘ any Priellcr area; to that they divide thel'e nrrtcrailnramiMonk to come into thofe Cities where they are Matters, for fear their worldly lnterei‘t ihould recent conliderable damage by that fort of hlen'7 becatr (they fry) it makes the indium idle, to alfemble'et in like Flocks of Sheep. They employ "em in all fans of ferviee, as to manure the gronnij, to work it the Mines, and to carry Burdens in Journeys 0F séor6o Leagues. And their Malters fo conftantly (as theyido) to inl'trnét "em in the matters of Reli craft the hard Tasks of \I‘t'ork they fet "em that the gion ', for all the time they take up to preach to "etc, Mr Wretches have not time to attend tiiflaiiiflf‘il‘fi'ithey detain rem trom the \N'ork impofed on '63 9739f. Divine \Vord, and to learn the Rulesiof Sometimes when the poor imimm have been alien- trinlhathe nity. Thefe People, the free, have been bled for their inl'trnviiion in Chrii‘tianity, the Spar:ara's have inlolently accoited 'em with Cudgelsr: made Slaves, and the greatelt part of'/'ein deliroy'd. hrents and Children have been flaughter'd towetheir handS'7 taking: tech :1 number of jemasthtl think fit, to carry their Baggage or any fuch likeset' ll'figgfivfllfagiets (1' Cities entirely mind, and riot "1&1 (411 vice; andif they are unwilling to obey, they for; H met an me. i *0/7112',' 3' tore regard to their séifiir ,7 iiic .t rliFCZlre" dificSouls t , :liiiii r i no 'em to it with blows in the light of all the re: ad BO'dlCS died togeth er, and were uncaeable of and in the prefence of the Monks that infl‘ruci "cm nernal Rewards or Pnnilhments. i which is a great Scandal to our Religion, afldl mycuSpanjards undonhtedly have an Obligation of mighty Obitacle to their Converfion, who at, firangely terrified and hinder'd in thefe pious Elf? 1": [Jon em to lnlrrnci them in the [Joetrine or but they are to ignorant themfelves, that cifes as well as the Monks that preach to 'em, ii villi}; senor much to be wonder'd at, if they take no care this ill triage. Another inconvenience the'Sprmiards pretend the [infOFm others. I knew one "job" Colmmero in the receive from thefe lnl'trufiions, is, that when their gaff/142mm, as dull, as ignorantand whimfi~ diam are converted and placid in the number 0fchri m o iiirgiiai-Uifliimci {rlneet with, to whom the fiians, they snow proud and infolent, thinkiflgbi: mama, thénrctr‘ciré 'iifaé"h§v§rf§t§‘ij , . . rate the ter or the natives than they are,and refufe to mail. ';3‘ . _ . at v 0 the Crofs, and when he was examined about 13 the |