Excerpt from Collection of Curious Observations on the Manners, Customs, Usages, Different Languages, Government, Mythology, Chronology, Ancient and Modern Geography, Ceremonies, Religion, Mechanics, Astronomy, Medicine, Physics, Natural History, Commerce, Arts, and S, Vol. 2Fmite number of thefe unfortunate creatures, to re: duce them to the harfhefi llavery. 'tis faid, that in, the ~fpace of a hundred and thirty years they have deftroyed or made Haves of two millions of Indians, and that they have depopulated a thoufand parts of the country as far as the river of the Amazons. The terror they have fpread among thefe people, has rendered them more favage than they were, and forced them to hide themfelves in the caves and hollows of the mountains, or to difperfe here and there in the molt remote and gloomy parts of the forefis.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.