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Wednesday, December 6, 2017

'Destruction of the Indies'

'In the retain An Account. Much Abbreviated, Of The closing Of The Indies bishop De Las Casas writes to Don Felipe prince of al peerless Spain to make him informed of the distresss and punishment the Spaniards did to the Indians on their conquests of the Islands. De Las Casas in the bloodline of the book explains why the Spaniards tortured and killed the Indians when they came to their land. The Spaniards cherished their gold when they plant out that the Indians were producing so much of it and in the end the Spaniards treasured their land. Las Casas says that the Indians never did any harm to the Spaniards and archetype they were gods from the sky and present the Spaniards committed legion(predicate) acts of wrongful harm, theft, tally and violence. These acts begin on the island of Hispaniola where the Spaniards would beat the Indians with their unmingled hands or sticks till they pitch the lords of the Indian villages. The maitre dhotel of the Spaniards would viola te the married woman of the Indian king.\nIn the beginning the Indians would exhort back just now they were no hold for the Spaniards who rode on horses and had admixture swords while the Indians had spears do out of sticks they had no chance and were in conclusion executeed. The Spaniards spared no one including no children or pregnant woman. The Spaniards were so cruel that they would slash open the venter of a pregnant woman and whence hack the mishandle to pieces also they would center wages on who might opus open a man in one repelting off of his sword. They would also cut the arms of the Indians and all hang them or burn them at the stake. The Indians that were fortunate to overleap would go into the mountains and cut through but the Spaniards would maneuver hunting dogs into those mountains to slaughter them and whoever survived that and was found finally became slaves to the Spaniards.\nThe Spaniards would eventually plump on to bottle up the islands o f San Juan and Jamaica where they would once again slaughter and torture the Indians and would take a... '

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