An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies, With Related Texts

by Bartolomé de las Casas

About This Book

All the things that have taken place in the Indies, both since their marvellous discovery and those first years when Spaniards first went out to them to remain for some time, and then in the process thereafter down to these our own days, have been so extraordinary and so in no wise to be believed by any person who did not see them, that they seem to have clouded and laid silence and oblivion upon all those other deeds, however bold and dauntless they might be, that in centuries past were ever seen and heard in this world.