A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies

part Idiots, Cruel, Avaritious, infected and stained with all sorts of

Vices. And this was the great care they had of them, they sent the Males to the Mines to dig and bring away the Gold, which is an intollerable labor; but the Women they made use of to Manure and Till the ground, which is a toil most irksome even to Men of the strongest and most robust constitutions, allowing the...