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256 SPANISH AMERICA. 



CHAPTER VI. 



OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF SPANISH 

 AMERICA. 



FIRST SETTLERS TYRANNY OF THE MOTHER- 

 COUNTRY ATTEMPTS AT REVOLUTION^ 



MIRANDA. 



According to special contract entered 

 into between the crown of Spain, and the 

 discoverers, conquerors, and settlers of 

 Spanish America, they were to be the Lords 

 of the country, holding, by a sort of feudal 

 tenure, their lands, or fiefs, under the name 

 of Encomenderos, The conduct, however, of 

 these petty sovereigns towards the natives 



