A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies: Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. — John Shaqi
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies: Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them.Casas, Bartolomé de las
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A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies: Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them.
Casas, Bartolomé de las
Indians, Treatment of -- Latin America; Spain -- Colonies -- America
You are not ignorant that there is a rumor spread abroad among us of
the _Spaniards_ Arrival, and are sensible by woeful experience how such
and such (naming them) and _Hayti_ (so they term _Hispaniola_ in their
own language) with their Inhabitants have been treated by them, that
they design to visit us with equal intentions of committing such acts
as they have hitherto been guilty of. But do you not know the cause and
reason of their coming? We are altogether ignorant of it, they
replied, but sufficiently satisfied that they are cruelly and wickedly
inclined: Then thus, he said, they adore a certain Covetous Deity,
whose cravings are not to be satisfied by a few moderate offerings, but
they may answer his Adoration and Worship, demand many unreasonable
things of us, and use their utmost endeavors to subjugate and
afterwards murder us. Then taking up a Cask or Cabinet near at hand,
full of Gold and Gems, he proceeded in this manner: This is the
_Spaniards_ God, and in honour of him if you think well of it, let us
celebrate our _Arcytos_ (which are certain kinds of Dances and caprings
used among them); and by this means his Deity being appeas'd, he will
impose his Commands on the Spaniards that they shall not for the future
molest us; who all unanimously with one consent in a loud tone made
this reply. Well said, Well said, and thus they continued skipping and
dancing before this Cabinet, without the least intermission, till they
were quite tired and grown weary: Then the Noble _Hathney_ re-assuming
his discourse, said, if we Worship this Deity, till ye be ravished from
us, we shall be destroyed, therefore I judge it convenient, upon mature
deliberation, that we cast it into the River, which advice was approved
of by all without opposition, and the Cabinet thrown in to the next
River.
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