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Title: Las Casas
'The Apostle of the Indies'

Author: Alice J. Knight

Release Date: November 24, 2007 [EBook #23613]

Language: English

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LAS CASAS

"THE APOSTLE OF THE INDIES"

[Illustration: BARTHOLOME DE LAS CASAS _Frontispiece_]

LAS CASAS

"_The_ APOSTLE _of the_ INDIES"

BY

ALICE J. KNIGHT

DEACONESS IN THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF AMERICA

[Illustration]

THE NEALE PUBLISHING COMPANY
440 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
THE NEALE PUBLISHING COMPANY

TO
MY FRIEND AND BISHOP,

THE RIGHT REVEREND
ROBERT LEWIS PADDOCK, D.D.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE
FOREWORD 7

CHAPTER
I BARTOLOME THE YOUTH 9

II A BIT OF HISTORY 14

III A NEW WORLD 18

IV A NEW LIFE 28

V DISAPPOINTMENTS 36

VI THE KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN SPUR 42

VII THE PEARL COAST 48

VIII THE CLOISTER 59

IX THE LAND OF WAR 64

X BISHOP OF CHIAPA 72

XI REVOLT IN CHIAPA 83

XII AT COURT 95

FOREWORD

Early American history is full of interest and romance. Great figures
move across the scene. Columbus, Ponce de Leon, Cortez, Alvarado,
Pizarro,--every schoolboy is familiar with their names and deeds. But
one man there is that stands out conspicuously among these heroes of
discovery and conquest, one not bent on fame and glory, not possessed of
that greed for gold that led to so much ruthless cruelty toward the
natives of the New World,--a man consumed