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264 Earth (which eertainly was a great enterprize to discover, not to say to overcome) overrun by twenty or thirty Souldiers, and those unarmed multitudes every where mow'd down as corn is by the sythe. Where art thou Cuba the greatest of Islands, Haytus or you Iucayans? Which heretofore were each of you guarded with six or ten hundred thousand men; but have now (some of you) scarce preserved fifteen of them for seed. Shew thy self awhile thou Peru and thou Mexico. O wonderful and miserable face! that immense tract, and such as may well be called another World, appears vast and desolate, in such a manner as if it had been blasted with a fire from Heaven. My Tongue and Heart fail me Lipsius, as oft as I remember these things; and I look upon all that hath befallen us (in comparison of these) to be but pieces of strawes (as the Comædian words it) or little mites. Nor do I here represent to you, the Rh