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witnefs of their Cruelties, gives an account 

 that they had in his time deftroyed above 40 

 Millions of the poor Indians ; tho they received 

 them with the greateft kindnefs imaginable, 

 were ready to do 'em all the friendly Offices that 

 one man could defire of another, andteftified 

 their great Inclination to have embraced the 

 Chriftian Religion. But the Spaniards aim'd at 

 the Deftruftion, and not at the Converfion of 

 the Indians ; and are avowedly chargM with it 

 by the faid Biflhop, who in many places of his 

 Book declares, that after they had fent for the 

 Chiefs of the Countries to meet them in an a- 

 micable manner, which the poor harmleft 

 Creatures did without fufpicion of any Fraud, 

 thefe mercilefs Tyrants murder'd them by 

 wholefale, on purpofe to make themfelves ter- 

 rible to them. This was a Praftice fb inconfift- 

 ent with Humanity, that all the People of the 

 World ought to have refented it ; as having 

 much more reafbn to declare the Spaniards to 

 be Enemies to Mankind, than ever the Roman 

 Senat had to declare Nero to be fuch. 



But this fort of Treatment, compared with 

 what they made others to fuffer, may well be 

 caird Mercy : for tho it was Death, thQ Indians 

 were hereby quickly delivered from their Mi- 

 lery ; whereas they put multitudes of others to 

 lingring Deaths, that they might feelthem- 

 felves die gradually : and yet this is not fo in- 

 tolerable neither as the Condition of thofe poor 

 People that had the misfortune to furvive that 



Cruelty ; 



