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Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Name: Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Author: Bartolomé de las Casas

Bartolomé de las Casas

Read by Arnie Horton · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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00 - The Argument of this Narrative by way of Preface to the Reader (5:24)
01 - The Cruelties of the Spaniards Committed in America (11:53)
02 - Of the Island Hispaniola (6:29)
03 - Of the Kingdoms contained in Hispaniola (19:13)
04 - Of the Isles of St. John and Jamaica (1:34)
05 - Of the Isle of Cuba (9:26)
06 - Of the Continent (11:38)
07 - Of the Province of Nicaraqua (8:24)
08 - Of new Spain (5:01)
09 - Of New Spain in Particular (18:09)
10 - Of the Kingdom and Province of Guatimala (12:13)
11 - A farther Discourse of New Spain: And some Account of Panuco and Xalisco (8:33)
12 - Of the Kingdom of Jucatan (17:56)
13 - Of the Province of St. Martha & Of the Province of Carthagena (10:34)
14 - Of the Pearl-Coast, Paria, and Trinity-Isle (18:08)
15 - Of the River Yuya Pari (1:18)
16 - Of the Kingdom of Venecuela (11:44)
17 - Of the Provinces of Florida (6:17)
18 - Of the Plate-River, that is, the Silver-River (4:41)
19 - Of the vast Kingdoms and Spatious Provinces of Perusia (17:51)
20 - Of the New Kingdom of Granada (36:30)