An account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America containing the most exact relation hitherto publish'd, of their unparallel'd cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above forty millions of people : with the propositions offer'd to the King of Spain to prevent the further ruin of the West-Indies / by Don Bartholomew de las Casas, Bishop of Chiapa, who was an eye-witness of their cruelties ; illustrated with cuts ; to which is added, The art of travelling, shewing how a man may dispose his travels to the best advantage.
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- An account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America containing the most exact relation hitherto publish'd, of their unparallel'd cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above forty millions of people : with the propositions offer'd to the King of Spain to prevent the further ruin of the West-Indies / by Don Bartholomew de las Casas, Bishop of Chiapa, who was an eye-witness of their cruelties ; illustrated with cuts ; to which is added, The art of travelling, shewing how a man may dispose his travels to the best advantage.
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- Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566.
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- London :: Printed by J. Darby for D. Brown [and 2 others],
- 1699.
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Contents
- title page
- THE CONTENTS.
- Newly publish'd,
- The PREFACE.
- illustrations
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A
RELATION
OF THE
VOYAGES and CRUELTIES
Of the SPANIARDS in the
WEST-INDIES.
- introduction
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by country
- A particular Account of what the Spaniards did in Hispaniola.
- Of the Kingdoms contain'd in the Island of Hispaniola.
- Of the Islands of St. John and Jamaica.
- Of the Island of Cuba.
- Of the Continent.
- Of the Province of Nicaraqua.
- Of New Spain.
- A more particular Account of New Spain.
- Of the Kingdom of Guatimala.
- Of New Spain, of Panuco and Xalisco.
- Of the Kingdom of Yucatan.
- Of the Province of St. Martha.
- Of the Province of Carthagena.
- Of the Pearl-Coast, and the Island of Tri∣nidado.
- Of the River Yuya-pari.
- Of the Kingdom of Vençuela.
- Of those Provinces of the Continent called Florida.
- Of the River de la Plata, or Silver-River.
- Of the great Kingdoms and Provinces of Peru.
- Of the new Kingdom of Grenada.
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in general
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proposed reforms
- The Words of the Bishop on this Subject are as follows:
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bishop's abstract
- I Proposition.
- II Proposition.
- III Proposition.
- IV Proposition.
- V Proposition.
- VI Proposition.
- VII Proposition.
- VIII Proposition.
- IX Proposition.
- X Proposition.
- XI Proposition.
- XII Proposition.
- XIII Proposition.
- XIV Proposition.
- XV Proposition.
- XVI Proposition.
- XVII Proposition.
- XVIII Proposition.
- XIX Proposition.
- XX Proposition.
- XXI Proposition.
- XXII Proposition.
- XXIII Proposition.
- XXIV Proposition.
- XXV Proposition.
- XXVI Proposition.
- XXVII Proposition.
- XXVIII Proposition.
- XXIX Proposition.
- XXX Proposition.
- A Dispute between Don Bartholomew de Las-Casas, Bishop of Chiapa, and Dr. Sepulueda.
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proposed reforms
- THE ART OF Travelling to Advantage.