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Quotation from A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de las Casas
“they took this course, that immediately at their first arrival they committed some notorious butcheries, which made those Innocent Sheep tremble for fear.”
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Account of the mainland conquests, trans. Anonymous (1689)
The pattern of terror Las Casas saw repeated in each region.
Citation: "they took this course, that immediately at their first arrival they committed some notorious butcheries, which made those Innocent Sheep tremble for fear." — Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Account of the mainland conquests, trans. Anonymous (1689). (id las-casas-destruction-of-the-indies-q2)
