The tears of the Indians being an historical and true account of the cruel massacres and slaughters of above twenty millions of innocent people, committed by the Spaniards in the islands of Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, &c. : as also in the continent of Mexico, Peru, & other places of the West-Indies, to the total destruction of those countries / written in Spanish by Casaus, an eye-witness of those things ; and made English by J.P.

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Title: The tears of the Indians being an historical and true account of the cruel massacres and slaughters of above twenty millions of innocent people, committed by the Spaniards in the islands of Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, &c. : as also in the continent of Mexico, Peru, & other places of the West-Indies, to the total destruction of those countries / written in Spanish by Casaus, an eye-witness of those things ; and made English by J.P.
Author: Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566.
Publication: London :: Printed by J.C. for Nath. Brook ...,; 1656.
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Subject terms: Indians, Treatment of -- Latin America.; Spain -- Colonies -- America.
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Of the Islands St. John and Jamaica.

IN the year 1509. the Islands of St. Iohn and Iamaica that look'd like fruitful gar∣dens, were possessed by the Spaniards, with the same bloudy intentions, as the other were; for there they also exercised their accustomed cruelties, killing, burning, roasting men, and throwing them to the dogs, as also by oppressing them with sun∣dry and various torments in the Gold Mines, as if they had come to rid the earth of these innocent and harmelesse creatures, of whom above six hundred thousand were murthered in these two Islands, so lavish were the Spanish swords of the bloud of these poor souls, scarce two hundred more remaining; the rest perished without the least knowledge of God.