Er.AUlKi'.SS OF SI'FIXI!. < 
peace, aud friends of the Castilians. Tlja 
of document called El Auto de Mfjueroa, is on 
^ ^I'ost curious recoi-ds of the barbarism of tbe first 
^^i^iistadores. Without any attention to the analogy of 
every nation that could be accused of having 
t'a ^ prisoner aflei' a Irattle, was arbitrarily declared of 
™ce. Tlic inhabitants of TJriapari (on tlie ponuisula of 
bai 1 - named Caribs ; the Urinacos (settled on the 
the Lower Orinoco, or Urinucu), Guatiaos. All 
to p designated by Pigucroa as Caribs were condeuinetl 
War^' V" ’ might at will be sold, or.cxtcniiinatcd by 
t]j ■, those sanguinary struggles, the Carib women, after 
des their husbands, defended themselves with such 
of that, Anghiera says they were taken for tribes 
''U'ibs 
p .V^^‘*yons. Uiif; amidst the eriiclties exercised on the 
eon^”'^’ is consolatory to find, that there existed some 
men, who raised the voice of Imnianity and jus- 
ti'oii monks embraced an 0 ])inion ditferent 
tlier^^™^ nhich they had at first adopted. In an ago when 
iustit no hope of founding piihlic hberty on civil 
vidii i^v attempt was at least made to defend indi- 
savs *' hi"' (^ey sanctissima),” 
liijjj, in 1.5.5J, “by which our emperor has pro- 
t ijj^f 'he reducing of the ludiaus to slavery. Tt is just, 
sPiv "'ho are all born free, should not become the 
' I®** ot one anoth ' 
.-Duriiio- 
"ilh 
our 
or. 
abode 
, , ill the Carib missions, we observed 
I'i^ht Iho facility with which young ludiaus of 
zif J'o'ars of age, xvheu appointed to tlie post of algnu- 
siicce'^' ^‘^’’‘ingue, the municipality for whole liours in 
the of voice, their gravity of deportment, 
hdell'ff " hicli accompanied their speech, all denoted an 
people capable of a high degree of civilization. A 
to pj.pg who knew onuiigh of the Carib language 
and In necasionally, pointed out to ns that the long 
whicli occur in the discourses of the 
hexion^ never confused or obscure, i’articular in- 
obi, 
■ 'he verb indicate beforehand the nature of the 
’.leet, 
" hether it be animate or inanimate, singular or plural. 
j**® elyaiologv of this word, bceau.se the hmgujigas of the 
nds Jitfered from tlio?e of llavti. 
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