h, and robbing the Inhabitants of
their Gold and Sliver, surpassing all their Predecessors in those
indirect ways, rejecting wholly both the fear of their God and King,
nay forgetting that they were born men with reasonable Faculties.

These incarnate Devils laid waste and desolate Four Hundred miles of
most Fertile Land, containing vast and wonderful Provinces, most
spatious and large Valleys surrounded with Hills, forty Miles in
Length, and many Towns richly abounding in Gold and Silver. They
destroy'd so many and such considerable Regions, that there is not one
supernumerary witness left to relate the Story, unless perchance some
that lurkt in the Caverns and Womb of the Earth to evade death by their
inhumane Swords embrew'd in Innocent _Indian_ blood, escaped. I judge
that they by new invented and unusual Torments ruinated four or five
Millions of Souls and sent them all to Hell. I will give a taste of
two or three of their Transactions, that hereby you may guess at the
rest.

They made the supream Lord of the Province a Slave, to squeeze his Gold
from him, racking him to extort his confession who escaping fled into
the Mountains, their common Sanctuary, and his Subjects lying absconded
in the Thickets of the Woods, were stir'd up to Sedition and Tumult or
Mutiny. The _Spaniards_ follow and destroy many of them, but those
that were taken alive and in their power were all publickly sold for
Slaves by the Common Crier.

They were in all Provinces they came into entertained and welcomed by
the _Indians_ with Songs, Dances and Rich Presents but Rewarded very
ungratefully with bloodshed and Slaughter. The German Captain and
Tyrant caused several of them to be clapt into a Thatcht House, and
there cut in pieces; but some of them to avoid falling by their bloody
and merciless Swords, climb'd up to the beams and Rafters of the House,
and the Governour, hearing it (O cruel Brute?) commanded Fire to be put
to it and burnt them all alive, leaving the Region desert and desolate.

They also came to another stately Province, bordering on St. _Martha_;
whose inhabitants did them many egregious and notable services,
bestowing on them innumerable quantities of Gold besides many other
gifts, but when they were upon departure, in retribution of their Civil
Treating and Deportment the German Tyrant, commanded that all the
Indians, with their Wives and Children if possible, should be taken
into Custody; inclosed in some large