The History of North and South America, from Its Discovery to the Death of General Washington, Volumes 1-2Benjamin Warner, and sold at his stores, Richmond, Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina, 1819 - America |
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Page 40
... suffered no great loss of men . The Indians were the greatest sufferers by this ill - concerted policy . Shut up among barren mountains , without any food but the wild productions of the earth , distressed by famine . conta- gious ...
... suffered no great loss of men . The Indians were the greatest sufferers by this ill - concerted policy . Shut up among barren mountains , without any food but the wild productions of the earth , distressed by famine . conta- gious ...
Page 50
... suffered them to enjoy such uncontrolled liberty , as led to the most extravagant excesses . So far from protecting the Indians , he gave a legal sanction to the oppression of that unhappy peo- ple . He divided them into distinct ...
... suffered them to enjoy such uncontrolled liberty , as led to the most extravagant excesses . So far from protecting the Indians , he gave a legal sanction to the oppression of that unhappy peo- ple . He divided them into distinct ...
Page 57
... suffered them to languish above a year , exposed to misery in various forms . When they arrived at St. Domingo , the fourteenth of August , 1504 , the governor , with that mean artifice usually attending vulgar minds , that labours to ...
... suffered them to languish above a year , exposed to misery in various forms . When they arrived at St. Domingo , the fourteenth of August , 1504 , the governor , with that mean artifice usually attending vulgar minds , that labours to ...
Page 70
... suffer him long to languish in confinement . Judges were inmediately appointed to proceed on his trial . Disloyalty to the king , and an intention to revolt against the governor , were the crimes he was accused of : sentence of death ...
... suffer him long to languish in confinement . Judges were inmediately appointed to proceed on his trial . Disloyalty to the king , and an intention to revolt against the governor , were the crimes he was accused of : sentence of death ...
Page 71
... suffered extremely for want of water , especially the wounded and sickly who were exposed to the heat of the torrid zone . Some of them died , and Cordova , their com- mander , expired soon after they landed in Cuba . Notwithstanding ...
... suffered extremely for want of water , especially the wounded and sickly who were exposed to the heat of the torrid zone . Some of them died , and Cordova , their com- mander , expired soon after they landed in Cuba . Notwithstanding ...
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