The document discusses the colonization of the Indies by European empires. It focuses on the brutal treatment of indigenous peoples in Hispaniola and the mainland of South and Central America by Spanish colonizers. The colonizers worked indigenous peoples to death in mines, resulting in the deaths of thousands from overwork and hunger. They also hunted down and killed indigenous peoples who fled, depopulating entire regions and leaving them as barren wastelands. One governor in particular was described as the "cruellest of tyrants" who devastated fertile, densely populated areas, driving out and killing indigenous peoples without mercy across hundreds of leagues.

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with connection to Indies.flee into the hills while others were in such despair that they took
their own lives. Men and women hanged themselves and even strung up their own children.
JAs a direct result of the barbarity of one Spaniard (a man I knew personally) more than two
hundred locals committed suicide, countless thousands in all dying in this way.There was
one royal official on the island who, when he was allotted three hundred natives, worked
them so hard that, at the end of three months, only thirty -that is to say, just one tenth of the
original number -were still-alive, the other two hundred and seventy having perished down
the mines. Later, he received another consignment of much the same number, or even more,
_ and he saw them -off, too. The more he received, the more he killed, until eventually he
himself died and the Devil took his soul.During the three or four months I was there, more
than seven thousand children died of hunger, after their parents had been shipped off to the
mines, and I saw many other horrors also.It was later decided to hunt down the natives who
had fled into the mountains, and the subsequent hunting parties were responsible for
carnage beyond belief. Thus it was that the whole of the island was devastated and
depopulated, and it now affords, as we discovered on a recent visit, a moving and
heartrending spectacle, transformed, as it has been, into one vast, barren wasteland.THE
MAINLAND_II-• • It was in I P4 that a governor lande~ on the Mainland.” l This man, who
descended on the region like the wrath of God, was the cruellest of tyrants, totally devoid as
he was of any feelings of mercy or even of common sense. He was determined to settle the
whole area with Spaniards. The Mainland had seen its share of despots before, who had
pillaged and murdered and alienated the local people, but their depredations and iniquities
had so far been confined to the coastal areas. This individual, however, outstripped all his
predecessors, transcending in cruelty even those that had ravaged the islands, and his
devilish deeds surpassed all the abominations that had taken place before his arrival. Nor
did he confine his attentions to the coastal area, but cut great swathes through the interior,
driving the locals ~.,.” .’ out, killing left, right and centre, and despatching everyone he
encountered to Hell. He devastated the land for many leagues r north of Darien right up to
and including the kingdom and provinces of Nicaragua -a distance of more than five
hundred ~; leagues over some of the most fertile and densely populated~areas that are to

2. be found anywher~ in the known world. It -,<• was a region in which there lived many great
lords, and where~~there were countless large cities. Nowhere on the face of the iA earth
had such an enormous wealth of gold been discovered, { for, although the island of
Hispaniola had filled Spain to overflowing with gold, and ,gold of the _ highest quality, this
had all to be extracted from the bowels of the earth by the sweat41 Pedro Arias de Avila, or
Pedrarias Davila; se~ Canes. Lellm fro” , M.xifo, pp115-14. The Mainland (Tim-” Fir” ,e) was
the name given to northern South America and southern Central America, and was the area
referred to by the English 2S the ‘ Spanish Main’ 31 ORDER THIS ESSAY HERE NOW AND
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