This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...the reinstated mutineers with laborers for their farms. This was the beginning of the system of repartimientos, by which every colonist, even the vilest, was given absolute power over as many Indians as his means and rank demanded. The system brought unutterable misery upon the natives, and blacked the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...the reinstated mutineers with laborers for their farms. This was the beginning of the system of repartimientos, by which every colonist, even the vilest, was given absolute power over as many Indians as his means and rank demanded. The system brought unutterable misery upon the natives, and blacked the memory of its author. In his letters to the monarchs, Columbus explained the compulsion upon which he had made terms with the rebels and asked that they be brought to trial. There were minor difficulties to be overcome but, by August, 1500, the viceroy felt that peace had been restored. The cloud that had long been gathering was now about to break. Da Gama's opening of the African route to India naturally prompted another Portuguese expedition and, in March, 1500, Cabral sailed with three ships for Calicut. He took a course further westward than that of Da Gama and, on or about the twenty-second of April, "stumbled upon Brazil and preempted the share of Portugal in the New World." Cabral sent back a caravel with the news, and continued his journey to India. Wholly independent of the efforts and ideas of Columbus, he had found America. Before the end of July, King Emanuel notified Ferdinand and Isabella of Cabral's discovery. Probably, the prospect of complications on the western side of the line of demarcation made more evident the importance of promptly putting the affairs of Haiti in better condition, and reinforced the desire of Ferdinand to curtail and, if possible, to withdraw the concessions granted to Columbus. There had been mismanagement, nepotism, arrogance, and cupidity, and it is not much cause for wonder that Isabella yielded to the persuasion of Ferdinand and the plausible representations of Fonseca. Columbus himself...
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