. Documentary history of the state of Maine . e of both sexes, without regard to age orhealth, snatched from the continent. Not a few of them, un-accustomed to the sea, confined in the holds of the vessels,perished cruelly from hunger, filth, and squalor. Nay! howmany women, pregnant by the Spanish, have been sold intoslavery with their innocent progeny. The following is the concluding passage from this author, onpage 80: — And by these means some of the soldiers have attained togreat estate; some obtained great dignity at home and abroad ;some so increased their flocks at the expense of many
. Documentary history of the state of Maine . e of both sexes, without regard to age orhealth, snatched from the continent. Not a few of them, un-accustomed to the sea, confined in the holds of the vessels,perished cruelly from hunger, filth, and squalor. Nay! howmany women, pregnant by the Spanish, have been sold intoslavery with their innocent progeny. The following is the concluding passage from this author, onpage 80: — And by these means some of the soldiers have attained togreat estate; some obtained great dignity at home and abroad ;some so increased their flocks at the expense of many others,that there have been found those who possessed eight thousandhead. This so manifest injustice and tyranny of our men couldnot exist without giving rise at once to great commotions andwars; at times among themselves, and often undertaken by thenatives against them. code, promulgated at Burgos, in 1512, by which the employment of In-dians in the mines was insisted upon. Purchas says the law was devised by some cruel divell. 31 *-, Ci_. I Q, 0 fell L ft i ^ r^r/z /A>«- r- >~/m Is- -->&? 1j^» **y~>- A <s^,^,^./**-»r v% v,\- &- £? t
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