Popery truly display'd in its bloody colours, or, A faithful narrative of the horrid and unexampled massacres, butcheries, and all manner of cruelties, that hell and malice could invent, committed by the popish Spanish party on the inhabitants of West-India together with the devastations of several kingdoms in America by fire and sword, for the space of forty and two years, from the time of its first discovery by them / composed first in Spanish by Bartholomew de las Casas, a bishop there, and an eyewitness of most of these barbarous cruelties ; afterward translated by him into Latin, then by other hands, into High-Dutch, Low-Dutch, French, and now taught to speak modern English.

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Author:	Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566.
Title:	Popery truly display'd in its bloody colours, or, A faithful narrative of the horrid and unexampled massacres, butcheries, and all manner of cruelties, that hell and malice could invent, committed by the popish Spanish party on the inhabitants of West-India together with the devastations of several kingdoms in America by fire and sword, for the space of forty and two years, from the time of its first discovery by them / composed first in Spanish by Bartholomew de las Casas, a bishop there, and an eyewitness of most of these barbarous cruelties ; afterward translated by him into Latin, then by other hands, into High-Dutch, Low-Dutch, French, and now taught to speak modern English.
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Alternate titles:	Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias. English. Selections
Subject terms:	Indians, Treatment of -- Early works to 1800. Spain -- Colonies -- America.
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THE ARGUMENT OF THIS NARRATIVE By way of PREFACE TO THE READER.

THE CRUELTIES OF THE Spaniards Committed in AMERICA.

Of the Island HISPANIOLA.

Of the Kingdoms contained in Hispaniola.

Of the Isles of St. John and Jamaica.

Of the Isle of Cuba.

Of the CONTINENT.

Of the Province of NICARAQUA.

Of New SPAIN.

Of New Spain in Particular.

Of the Kingdom and Province of GUATIMALA.

A farther Discourse of New Spain: And some Account of Panuco and Xalisco.

Of the Kingdom of JUCATAN.

Of the Province of St. MARTHA.

Of the Province of CARTHAGENA.

Of the Pearl-Coast, PARIA, and TRINITY-ISLE.

Of the River Yuya Pari.

Of the Kingdom of Venecuela.

Of the Provinces of FLORIDA.

Of the Plate-River, that is, the Silver-River.

Of the vast Kingdoms and spatious Provin∣ces of PERUSIA.

Of the New Kingdom of Granda.