Note 10 — Chapter II · EARLY WRITERS OF TIERRA FIRME
Reading edition
In 1646 a number of pamphlets that had been issued in 1552 at Seville, were reprinted at Barcelona. These were: 1. Brevísima relación. 2. Treinta proposiciones pertenecientes al derecho que la iglesia y los príncipes cristianos tienen contra los infieles. 3. Una disputa entre el dicho obispo y el doctor Ginés de Sepúlveda. 4. Un tratado... sobre la materia de los indios que se han hecho ... esclavos. 5. Remedios ... por la reformation de los indios.
The following are titles of translation in point: Tears of the Indians: Being an Historical and true Account of the Cruel Massacres and Slaughters of above Twenty Millions of innocent People. Committed by the Spaniards in the Islands of Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, etc. As also, in the Continent of Mexico, Peru and other Places of the West-Indies, To the total destruction of those countries. Written in Spanish by Casaus, an Eye-witness of those things. London, 1656. Popery Truly Displayed in its Bloody Colours; Or, a Faithful Narrative of the Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the Inhabitants of West-India. Together with the Devastations of several Kingdoms of America with Fire and Sword, for the Space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of the first Discovery by them. Composed first in Spanish by Bartholomew de Las Casas, a Bishop there, and an Eye-Witness of most of these Barbarous Cruelties. London, 1689.