Note XXIX‑48 — Chapter XXIX · CORSAIRS IN THE SOUTH SEA. 1671-1682.
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Las Casas, in his Relation of the Spanish Voyages and Cruelties in the West Indies, 217, distinctly lays down the principle that 'the Spaniards had no Title to the Americans, as their Subjects, by right of Inheritance, Purchase, or Conquest.' Darien, Defence of the Scots Settlement, 5.