118 MODEST DEMANDS. 



cattle, sheep, etc., as also merchandise, 

 agricultural utensils, tools and materials for 

 mechanics' purposes; and all at liis own 



colonists. 



the ultimate expense of 



This adventurer, in the course of his me- 

 morial, also stipulates for some extraordinary 

 prmisions on the part of the I^ig : such as, 

 artillery and other arms, ammunitions 

 six priests, with a full complement of books, 

 ornaments and church accoutrements — a loan 

 of $20,000 from the royal treasury — a grant 

 of thirty leagues square of land wheresoever 

 he might choose to select it, with all the vas- 

 sals (Indians) residing upon it— his family to 

 be ennobled with the hereditary title of Mar- 

 quis—the office of Governor, with the titles 

 of Adehntado and the rank of Capt 



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of 8,000 du 



cats of Castile per annum — ^the privilege of 

 working mines exempt from the usual crown- 

 tax — ^perrnission to parcel out the aborigines 

 among his officers and men; and, besides 

 other favors to his brothers and relatives, to 

 have " Lidians recommended to their charge," 

 which, in other words, was the privilege of 

 making slaves of them to work in the mines 

 with many other distinctions, immunities 

 and powers to himself, sufficient to establish 

 him in an authority far more despotic than 

 any modern monarch of Europe would ven- 

 ture to assume. And although these exorbi- 

 tant demands were not all conceded, they 

 go to demonstrate by what incentives of pecu- 



