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Excerpt from Spanish America, or a Descriptive, Historical, and Geographical Account of the Dominions of Spain in the Western Hemisphere, Continental and Insular, Vol. 2 of 2: Illustrated by a Map of Spanish North America, and the West-India Islands; A Map of Spanish South America, and an Engraving, Representing the Comparative Altitudes of the Mountains in Those Regions
The coast of this country was originally disco vered by Columbus in 1498, during his third ex pedition. Several adventurers succeeding in explo ratory voyages on this part of the continent, the Spanish government came to the determination of endeavouring to place colonies on its soil. These being chie?y ill conducted, and managed by priests unacquainted with the manners and customs of the natives, did not succeed, and it was found necessary to endeavour to subdue the inhabitants by force. When this was partially efi'ected, and Spanish settlers were placed in some security, the management of the new colonies was entrusted to the care of the Welsers, a German mercantile company. These people exercised, for a length of time, an uncontrolled sway over the unfortunate Indians and the colonists. Their excess of punish ment and their fraud becoming at last notorious, the king of Spain deprived them of their power, in 1550, and appointed an officer of the crown to administer justice to the oppressed.
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