ow many, and how great
Injuries and Injustices, the Inhabitants of this Sea-shore have endur'd
from the year 1510, to this day. I will only relate Two or Three
Piacular and Criminal Acts of the First Magnitude, capable of
comprehending all other Enormities that deserve the sharpest Torments,
Wit and Malice can invent, and so make way for a deserved Judgment upon
them.

A Nameless Pirate of the Year 1510, accompanied with a parcel of Sixty
or Seventy, arriv'd at _Trinity-Island_, which exceeds _Sicile_, both
in Amplitude and Fertility, and is contiguous to the Continent on that
side where it toucheth upon _Paria_, whose Inhabitants, according to
their Quality, are more addicted to Probity and Vertue, than the rest
of the _Indians_; who immediately published an Edict, that all the
Inhabitants should come and cohabit with them. The _Indian_ Lords and
Subjects gave them a Debonair and Brotherly Reception, serving them
with wonderful Alacrity, furnishing them with dayly Provisions in so
plentiful a manner, that they might have sufficed a more numerous
Company; for it is the Mode among _Indians_ of this New World, to
supply the _Spaniards_ very bountifuly with all manner of Necessaries.
A short time after the _Spaniards_ built a stately House, which was an
Appartment for the _Indians_, that they might accomplish their
praemeditated Designs, which was thus effected. When they were to
thatch it, and had rais'd it two Mens height, they inclos'd several of
them there, to expedite the Work, as they pretended, but in truth that
they who were within, might not see those without; thus part of them
surrounded the House with Sword in Hand that no one should stir out,
and part of them entred it, and bound the _Indians_, menacing them with
Death, if they offered to move a Foot; and if any one endeavoured to
escape, he was presently hackt in pieces; but some of them partly
wounded, and partly unwounded getting away, with others who went not
into the House, about One Hundred and Two Hundred, betook themselves to
another House with Bows and Arrows; and when they were all there, the
_Spaniards_ secur'd the Doors, throwing in Fire at another place, and
so they all perished. From hence they set Sail to the Island of St.
_John_ with near upon One Hundred and Eighty Slaves, whom they had
bound, where they sold one half of them, and thence to _Hispaniola_,
where they dispos'd of the rest. Now when I taxed this Captain with
Wickedness and Tr