Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia

ds, and on several of them he settled colonies, and did a

for the last time, Ovando

man it would take a volume to describe, bu

land that he sent his troops, who ravaged the country with fire and sword. He showed no mercy to age or sex, putting many to death with horrible tortures, and brought off the brave Catabanama, one of t

erever the woes of the gentle natives of Hayti are heard of, was the cruelty he wa

eventy of whom were steel-clad horsemen; giving out that he was coming o

ead, and his sister, Anacaona, wife of the late form

great natural grace and dignity, and superior intelligence

ttended by her most distinguished subjects, and her train of damsels wa

honour to the guests, who, for several days were ent

with her beautiful daughter Higuenamata, and her principal

ly the horsemen rushed into the midst of the naked and defenceless throng, trampling them under foot, c

e caziques were bound to the posts which supported the roof, and put to cruel tortures, until in the ext

, a horrible punishment was immediately inflicted. Fire was se

trial, she was pronounced guilty on the testimony of the Spaniards, and was ba

heir country ravaged by horse and foot, until, all being reduced to deplorable misery and abject submission, Ovando pronounced the province restored t

and such the story of the delightful region of Xaragua, which the Spaniards, by their own account,

abitants, and divided them amongst them, and many of the sanguinary c

a look of pity and admiration over

ride, and ambition; sordid care, and pining labour, were soon to fo