tfhisword jbwUjifldeafaflage inthe furtheft boundewf 

 the world. It it not my proiett at this time to write what the 

 Spaniards have done in thofe panes, for there are bookes e~ 

 now written vpon thitfubiett , nor yet how the Lordesfer* 

 wants have laboured and prof ted 5 for that requires a new 

 labour. 1 willoneh content myfelfe to plant this Hiforie and 

 relation At theaoores of the Gofpel^ feeing it is air eadie en 

 tered, andtomakeknowne the^T^atur all and M or all things 

 tfthe Indies ; to the end that Chrillianitie may be planted 

 andaugmented ^ *i it is expounded at large in the bookes we 

 havewritten)e procuranda Indiorum t&M.Andifanj 

 we winder atfemefajhions & cuftomes of the Indies,^ wil 

 fcorne them asfooles^ or abhorre them at di<velijk and inhu 

 mane people , let him remember that the fame things, yea, 

 worJe^hAvebeenefeeneamongjl the Greekes and Romans, 

 who have commanded the whole world \ at m may eafly vn- 

 Aerftandjiotonely of our Authors,** Eufebius, ^Ccfarca, 

 Clement Alexandrine, and others^ tut alfo of their owne^ 

 rffPlinie, Denis Halicarnaflis , and Plutarke : for the 

 Prince of darkenes being the beadofalllnfidelitie, it is no 

 new tkingtofinde among Inf dells, c ruelties, flthines 3 and 

 follies fit for fitch a M after. And although the ancient Gen 

 tiles have farrc furpaffed thefeofthe new world in valour 

 andnaturall knowledge , yet may wee obferve many things 

 in them worthie the remembrance. But to conclude,they (hew 

 tobe bar barout people, who being deprivedoft he (upernatu. 

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