Note 11 — Chapter II · EARLY WRITERS OF TIERRA FIRME
Reading edition
This is printed, together with the Brevísima relación and a number of other documents by Las Casas, in Fabié’s Vida y escritos de Don Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, vol. II. Vargas Machuca’s book on the militia was published in Madrid in 1599. The author was governor and captain-general of the island of Margarita. It is called Milicia y descripción de las Indias, and is in some sense the art of war as applied to affairs in the colonies.