A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies

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Bartolomé de las Casas

[Preparer's notes:

  1) Though the original title does not appear in this version, this
     is (apart from the preface) a translation of:
    "Brevisima relacion de la destruccíon de las Indias", by
    Bartolome de las Casas, originally published in Seville in 1552.
  2) The original archaic spelling and punctuation has been retained]

POPERY
Truly Display'd in its
Bloody Colours:
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.

——————————————————————————————————— Composed first in Spanish by Bartholomew de las Casas, a Bishop there, and Eye-Witness of most of these Barbarous Cruelties; afterward Translated by him into Latin, then by other hands, into High-Dutch, Low-Dutch, French, and now Taught to Speak Modern English. ——————————————————————————————————— London, Printed for R. Hewson at the Crown in Cornhil, near the Stocks-Market. 1689. ——————————————————————————————————— ———————————————————————————————————