Note 4 — Chapter V · THE SPANIARDS IN HISPANIOLA AND CUBA.
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In less than fifty years from the arrival of the Spaniards, not more than two hundred Indians could be found in Hispaniola; and Sir Francis Drake states that when he touched there in 1585, not one was remaining; yet so little were the Spaniards benefited by their cruelty, that they were actually obliged to convert pieces of leather into money!—See Hakluyt’s Voyages, vol. iii.