The _Spaniards_ first assaulted the innocent Sheep, so qualified by the Almighty, as is premention'd, like most cruel Tygers, Wolves and Lions hunger-starv'd, studying nothing, for the space of Forty Years, after their first landing, but the Massacre of these Wretches, whom they have so inhumanely and barbarously butcher'd and harass'd with several kinds of Torments, never before known, or heard (of which you shall have some account in the following Discourse) that of Three Millions of Persons, which lived in _Hispaniola_ itself, there is at present but the inconsiderable remnant of scarce Three Hundred. Nay the Isle of _Cuba_, which extends as far, as _Valledolid_ in _Spain_ is distant from _Rome_, lies now uncultivated, like a Desert, and intomb'd in its own Ruins. You may also find the Isles of St. _John_, and _Jamaica_, both large and fruitful places, unpeopled and desolate. The _Lucayan_ Islands on the North Side, adjacent to _Hispaniola_ and _Cuba_, which are Sixty in number, or thereabout, together with with those, vulgarly known by the name of the Gigantic Isles, and others, the most infertile whereof, exceeds the Royal Garden of _Sevil_ in fruitfulness, a most Healthful and pleasant Climat, is now laid waste and uninhabited; and whereas, when the _Spaniards_ first arriv'd here, about Five Hundred Thousand Men dwelt in it, they are now cut off, some by slaughter, and others ravished away by Force and Violence, to work in the Mines of _Hispanioloa,_ which was destitute of Native Inhabitants: For a certain Vessel, sailing to this Isle, to the end, that the Harvest being over (some good Christian, moved with Piety and Pity, undertook this dangerous Voyage, to convert Souls to Christianity) the remaining gleanings might be gathered up, there were only found Eleven Persons, which I saw with my own Eyes. There are other Islands Thirty in number, and upward bordering upon the Isle of St. _John_, totally unpeopled; all which are above Two Thousand miles in Lenght, and yet remain without Inhabitants, Native, or People. As to the firm land, we are certainly satisfied, and assur'd, that the _Spaniards_ by their barbarous and execrable Actions have absolutely depopulated Ten Kingdoms, of greater extent than all _Spain_, together with the Kingdoms of _Arragon_ and _Portugal_, that is to say, above One Thousand Miles, which now lye wast and desolate, and are absolutely ruined, when as formerly no other Country whatsoever was more populous. Nay we dare boldly affirm, that during the Forty Years space, wherein they exercised their sanguinary and detestable Tyranny in these Regions, above Twelve Millions (computing Men, Women, and Children) have undeservedly perished; nor do I conceive that I should deviate from the Truth by saying that above Fifty Millions in all paid their last Debt to Nature.