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Title: The storied West Indies
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ober, Frederick A. (Frederick Albion), 1849-1913
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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A CITY OP SAD MEMORIES 115 dig in the mines, without rest or intermission, untildeath, their only refuge, put a period to their suffer-ings. Such as attempted resistance or escape, theirmerciless tyrants hunted down with dogs, which werefed on their flesh. They disregarded sex and age,and, with impious and frantic bigotry, even called inreligion to sanctify their cruelties. Some, more zeal-ous than the rest, forced their miserable captivesinto the water, and, after administering to them therite of baptism, cut their throats the next moment,to prevent their apostasy! Others made a vow tohang or burn thirteen Indians every morning, inhonor of our Saviour and the Twelve Apostles! Norwere these the excesses only of a blind and remorse-less fanaticism. The Spaniards were actuated inmany instances by such wantonness of malice as iswholly unexampled in the history of human deprav-ity. . . . Martyr relates that it was a frequent prac-tice among them to murder the Indians of Hispaniolain sport

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