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Show 28 A Relation of the Spanilh Voyage: am! C:raei'tz'es 2'22 [/18 VVef'lelndies, could. They employ'd Men to chaftife 'em that were more favage and barbarous than Tygers, thefe poor Creature would lie for dead upon the place. fcourg'd and beat 'em moll: unmercifully, and gave I 29' God is witnels or all the (Lruelties thefe miferable them all the ill Treatment they could devife 3 they Innocents have endur'd: 'Tis not pollible to recount the hundredth part of whatl have feen with would never difcover the leafi lign of Kindnefs oi my own Eyes. Pity," butalways lhew'd themfelves auflfere and bar- lron to undergo the Labor they endure in getting baroully. cruel. Gold out of the Mines. It would be very inhuman to treat the Moors themfelves after this manner, tho they are fo very cruel to the Chriftians, and do 'em all the mifchief they can, when they have the Afcendent over 'em. But the Indians are naturally a good- humour'd, eafy, peaceable, fubmiflive, and tradahle fort of People. Some of 'em have by the many Miferies they fufi'er'd, been driven to defpair of any mitigation of "em, and therefore fled into the Mountains, where they expected Death every moment. The Spaniards to hinder 'em from flying after this manner, appointed a bloody Fellow to make it his whole bufinefs to hunt out thefe Indian Refugees an on the Mountains. The Governor belides eltabliih'd a fort of Officers in the Spanifla Cities of great Conlideration and Authority, whom he callDd Vilitors, to each of thef: he gave a hundred Indians to let've A man had need have a Body of They muft delve and fearch athoufand times over in the bowels of the Mountains, till they dig 7em down from top to bottom 5 they mult work the very Rocks hollow. After this the Gold mult be walh'd in fome River, and the poor Creatures that do this work muft be perpetually in the Water, which gradually alters and {polls the Conltitution of their Bodies; and if the Mines happen to be full of \Vater, they are forc'd to empty "em. That your Majeilgy may the better judg of the Labor and Toil they fuller in the Gold Mines, your Majefty may pleafe to confider, that the Pagan Emperors accounted this the worth and molt intolerable Punilhment to infliét on the Martyrs,next to Death it felt. The Indians are fometimes keota whole year in tlzefe Mines: but lince the Spa- him, belides his ordinary Domelticks, the better to fupport his Dignity. He chofe fuch to this Office niardslzwe obfer‘v"'d, that it liillkl mail: of 'em to lieep 'em there ft) long, together, becaui'e their Roi dies were umapabie of firil‘aining the Fatigues of as had fignaliz'd themfelves by their Cruelty. When 111th a tedious and continual Labor, they rel‘olv‘d to the Alquazils prefented the Indians they found on the Mountains to thefe Vifitors, there were Perfons fuborird and infiruéied to accufe 'em after this make 'em work only for the {pace of five months filttelhvely, and then to give 'em a refpite of forty days, wherein they eizagwloy‘d 'em in melting Gold. manner"7 This Indian 2'»: a [my Dog, that fled into the Butthis pretended Rel": did 7em no great good, for fliozmtaim to avoid Which, therefore I defire he W} [r chi/hiz'd as he deer'veS. After the giving Of they were not muih leis incommocled during this this Evidence, the Vilitor us'd to caufe the poor lime than before, icing employld in, other very troubleibni kinds of Work, The Indians don): Indian to be tied to a Stake, and beat with a hard Know what Holy-(lays are‘7 for they Work as hard Rope, which the Seamen call a Salt-Eel, and indeed and as long on thofe days as at other times. is lvkx Hod. of Iron, till the Blood would llart out have they a fiil'liciefir‘y of bread allowil 'em; and A. " . a ,2: how many parts of his Body, and the find! they have in a'rerj/ ordin'ry fort, that has it not P00? Nor |