on of the Breast, procreated by a continued holding breath
under Water, for by too much cold a profluvium of blood follows. Their
hair naturally black is changed into a combust, burnt or Sun-colour
like that of the Sea Wolves, their shoulders and backs covered, or
overspread with a saltish humor that they appear rather like Monsters
in humane shape then Men.

They have destroy'd all the _Lucayans_ by this intolerable or rather
Diabolical exercise, for the accustomary emolument or gain of lucre,
and by this means gain'd the value of fifty, sometime one hundred
Crowns of every individual _Indian_. They sell them (though it is
prohibited) publickly; for the _Lucayans_ were excellent Swimmers, and
several perished in this Isle that came from other Provinces.

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_Of the River_ Yuya Pari.

This River washeth the Province arising from its head or fountain in
another Region, Two Hundred miles off and better, By this a wretched
Tyrant entred it and laid waste the Land for the space of many miles,
and murder'd abundance of them by Fire and Sword, _&c._ At length he
died violently, and all his Forces moldred away of themselves, many
succeeded him in his iniquity and cruelty and so dayly destroy them,
sending to Hell the Souls redeemed by the blood of the Son of God.

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_Of the Kingdom of _Venecuela.

Our Sovereign Lord the King in the Year 1526, over-perswaded by
fallacious appearances (for the _Spaniards_ use to conceal from His
Majesties knowledge the dammages and detriments, which God himself, the
Souls and state of the _Indians_ did suffer) intrusted the Kingdom of
_Venecuela_ longer and larger then the Spanish Dominions, with its
Government and absolute Jurisdiction to some _German_ Merchants, with
power to make certain Capitulations and Conventions, who came into this
Kingdom with Three Hundred Men, and there found a benign mild and
peaceable people, as they were throughout the _Indies_ till injured by
the _Spaniards_. These more cruel then the rest beyond comparison,
behav'd themselves more inhumanely then rapacious Tygres Wolves and
Lyons, for they had the jurisdiction of this Kingdom, and therefore
possessing it with the greater freedom from controul; lay in wait and
were the more vigilant with greater care and avarice to understand the
practical part of heaping up Wealt