y; and call them Country
_Indians_, or Inhabitants, who by a dreadful Massacre are delivered up
to Tyrannical and Horrible Servitude, whereby at length they are become
depopulated, made desolate, and utterly destroy'd; as appears by the
Epistle of the praementioned Bishop, who only gives us a slight Account
or Essay of their persecution and Sufferings. The _Indians_ of this
Country use to break out into such Words as these, when they are
driven, loaded like Brutes through the uncouth wayes in their Journeys
over the Mountains, if they happen to faint through Weakness, and
miscarry through extremity of Labour, (for then they are kicked and
cudge'd, their Teeth dasht out with the Pummels of their Swords to
raise them up again, when tired and fallen under weighty Burthens, and
force them to go on without Respiration, or Time to take Breath, and
all this with the following increpation, or upbraiding and taunting
words, _O what a wicket Villain art thou?_) I say they burst out into
these Expressions, I am absolutely tir'd, kill me, I desire to dye,
being weary of my Life as well as my Burthen and Journey: And this not
without deep Heart-breaking Sighs, they being scarce able to draw or
breathe out their words, which are the Characteristical Notes, and
infallible of the Mind drowned in Anguish and Sorrow. My it please our
Merciful God to order the discovery of these Crimes to be manifested to
those Persons, who are able and oblig'd to redress them.

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_Of the Province of_ CARTHAGENA.

This Province is distant Fifty Miles from the Isle of St. _Martha_
Westward, and situated on the Confines of the Country of _Cenusia_,
from whence it extends One Hundred Miles to the Bay of _Uraba_, and
contains a very long Tract of Land _Southward_. These Provinces from
the Year 1498 to this present time were most barbarously us'd, and made
desert by Murder and Slaughter, but that I may the sooner conclude this
brief summary. I will not handle the particulars, to the end I may the
better give an Account of the detestable Villanies that ruin'd other
Regions.

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_Of the _Pearl-Coast, PARIA, _and_ TRINITY-ISLE.

The _Spaniards_ made great Spoils and Havock from the _Parian_ Coast to
the Bay of _Venecuola_, exclusively, which is about Two Hundred Miles.
It can hardly be exprest by Tongue or Pen h