I think this is the right way to celebrate Columbus Day. Thanks to Tim Reifsnyder for the idea. From A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas, translated from the Spanish in 1689. This is the civilization that Christopher Columbus brought to the New World. One time it hapned that a Century or Party of One Hundred Spaniards making Excursions, came to a Mountain, where many People shunning so horrid and pernicious an Enemy conceald themselves, who immediately rushing on them, putting all to the Sword they could meet with, and then securd Seventy or Eighty Married Women as well as Virgins Captives; but a great Number of Indians with a fervent desire of recovering their Wives and Daughters appeard in Arms against the Spaniards, and when they drew near the Enemy, they unwilling to lose the Prey, run the Wives and Maidens through with their Swords. The Indians through Grief and Trouble, smiting their Breasts, brake out into these Exclamations. O perverse Generation of Men! O Cruel Spaniards! What do you Murder las Iras? (In their Language they call Women by the Name of las Iras as if they had said: To slay Women is an Act of bloody minded Men, worse than Brutes and Wild Beasts. gutenberg.org/cache/epub/20321/pg20321.html I earnestly beg and desire all Men to be perswaded, that this summary was not published upon any private Design, sinister ends or affection in favor or prejudice of any particular Nation; but for the publick Emolument and Advantage of all true Christians and moral Men throughout the whole World.
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 01:21:26 +0000
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