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  • Etiquetas: Violencia

The Indians scarce undertake any Business of Consequence, without making an Entertainment. If the propose entering into a War, either with Spaniards, or any Indian Nation; their Chiefs are summon’d to a Consultation, where they eat and drink…

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Old Mexico or New Spain: The divinities of the native inhabitants of Mexico were clothed with terror, and delighted in vengeance.

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They call, for instance, a town near that of Mexico, where the Spaniards have so often shed torrents of human blood, by the name of Angel Town

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At Weddings, and other joyful Occasions, they have their Feasts, where they continue drinking two or three Days, till all the Liquor is out: And as they are very quarrelsome in their Drink, the Master of the house always secures their Arms before…

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Continuing our march, we crossed a hostile country where the natives killed one of our soldiers, and wounded three others. The want of time prevented our punishing them as they deserved. Further on, in Guatimala, they had also manned the passes…

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Perhaps in most Christian countries it is generally so, and I am sorry that this mildness of modern manners in war is not universal. I think of Mexico and Peru, where, by professed Christians, many millions of harmless people were savagely butchered…

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Having taken some refreshment I set out again, and at the end of half league, having pass'd the small village of Taltenango, about a league further, the way very troublesome, came to the top of the mountain of Cornavaca, where stands a village call'd…

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They distill a Spirit of a Plant called Maguey, which is very intoxicating, and so generally drank, that Gemelli tells us, the Excise of it came to eleven thousand Pieces of Eight per annum in Mexico; that the Indians committed such Outrages, when…

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That instead of the Mexicans sacrificing Thousands and twenty thousands annually, as those Adventurers reported, they never sacrificed fifty in any one Year. And, for ought I can learn, they neither sacrificed Beasts or Men constantly; but only on…

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Had the first Spaniards possessed a temper like his, Mexico had never been deluged with the blood of its inhabitants, but a friendly intercourse had been established between the nations, which might have lasted unbroken for the duration of ages.

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The Spaniards destroyed all the ancient monuments of the country for they looked upon them as superstitious memorials of Pagan idolatry

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Above forty Millions perished by War and Cruelty.

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Was not I more than profuse in offering you victims and incense? Thousands of harmless creatures were sacrificed on your altars.

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That instead of the Mexicans sacrificing Thousands and twenty thousands annually, as those Adventurers reported, they never sacrificed fifty in any one Year. And, for ought I can learn, they neither sacrificed Beasts or Men constantly; but only on…

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He contented himself, therefore, with substituting in the place of one idol, which he had thrown from its niche, an image of the Virgin Mary […]

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