the Indians they have transported in
their ships amount to more than a million who were sold as slaves in
Santa Marta, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the island of San Juan.
27. And even now, in the year 1542, the traffic continues, for the royal
Audiencia of Hispaniola dissembled--nay favoured this and all the
other numberless acts of tyranny and destruction done along all that
coast of the continent, which is more than four hundred leagues from
Venezuela to Santa Marta, and is under their jurisdiction, though
they could have prevented and corrected them.
28. There has been no other reason to make slaves of all these Indians
except the perverse, blind, obstinate will of these most avaricious
tyrants, and to satisfy their insatiable avarice for money; just as
all the others have always done everywhere in the Indies, taking
those lambs and sheep away from their houses, their wives, and their
children in the said cruel and wicked ways, marking them with the
king's brand to sell them as slaves.

The Provinces of that Part of the Continent which is Called Florida

These provinces(101) have been visited at divers times since the
year 1510 or 1511 by three tyrants who imitated the deeds done by
the others, and also by two of them in other parts of the Indies
seeking to advance to a degree disproportioned to their merit, at
the cost of the blood and destruction of their fellow creatures.
2. And all three died a bad death, and their families and properties
established in human blood, perished, for I am witness of all three,
whose very memory is already as extinct in the world as though they
had never lived.
3. The infamy and horror of their names scandalised all the land
because of some massacres they perpetrated: these were not many,
however, for God killed them before they did more, for He had
reserved till that hour the punishment for the wickedness that I
know and saw they committed in other parts of the Indies.
4. The fourth tyrant went there recently, in the year 1538, with his
plans made and with great preparations. Since three years nothing
has been seen or heard of him.
5. We are sure, that as soon as he landed he committed cruel deeds and
at once disappeared: and that, if he be alive, he and his men have
destroyed numbers of