put in this class he had no idea in advance of his age in all but courage and military skill he appears behind his times no noble thought no lofty sentiment seems to have inspired him none such breathes in his words or deeds mr says he was not a mere but we see nothing else that can be said to distinguish him from the rest of men he was one of the most vulgar of he loved the excitement of adventurous deeds he sought vulgar fame and vulgar wealth and power by vulgar means for vulgar ends few distinguished were so he came among the red men of america they began by calling him a god and ended with him as the devil in the hot region of he was treated with great kindness his companions experienced every that could be desired from the attentions of the friendly nations they made more than a thousand for the and freely gave provisions for and his sent to learn who we were says and what we wanted for our ships we were only to tell what we wanted and they were to furnish it the indians who attached themselves to his standard were faithful of the only proved but was and he discontent he encouraged the nations to rely on his protection as he had come to their wrongs while he came to steal their possessions and their persons he told his own soldiers they were to fight against who had from their lord against the enemies of christianity to fight the battles of the cross to obtain riches and honor in this life and glory in heaven he was unjust to his own soldiers seizing more than us share of the of this than mr even the food was sometimes divided cap et al did the soldiers complain made a speech full of the most phrases and arguments most some he into silence with gold others with promises some he put in chains were the to be divided he not only selected first the king s fifth thereof and his own but the finest of the women were secretly set apart so that as one of these cap the common soldiers found only old and ugly women left for them after the spoil was divided in s conquest of this unjust fashion he would not always allow the soldiers to keep their scanty share but once demanded one third of it back again and insisted that if it were not restored he would take the whole under pretence of he a good deal from his own soldiers � a circumstance which injured him much says mr thinks such occasions were critical which all the address and personal authority of he never shrank from them but on such occasions was true to himself vol ii p but truth to himself was to his soldiers he would his word to them for the sake of more plunder much as they honored and feared him few loved him much and in one of his most trying times says the same old soldier we have often quoted they all him a handful of to stay his hunger cap was cruel this appears in the slaughter at and in the at which even mr thinks a dark stain on the memory of the his often appear wanton � he orders a man to be killed for stealing a pair of fowls another for speaking angrily to he has the feet of his pilot off for some he took fifty who came to his camp as cut off their hands and sent them home the friendly indians were curious to see the and came too near the lines of their and coolly relates that fifteen or twenty of them were shot down by the mr excuses this the jealousy of the court and the he had received from his seem to have given an unnatural to his of danger vol ii p after the conquest an took place and was speedily put down four hundred chiefs were to the stake or the by which means says god be praised the safety of the was secured he burnt alive some of s officers who were guilty of no offence but that of obeying their king at the same time he punished for giving them the order he tortured the members of s household putting boiling oil upon their feet this great to the put himself and the of to the torture � not exactly to save his soul so as by fire but to get his gold afterwards on a suspicion he hung them both mr shows little horror at these little sense s of ms of their injustice nay he seems to seek to the natural which a man feels at such tyranny of the strong over the weak we confess our astonishment that an historian tf ho thinks the desire of the heathen was the motive in the breast of no more censure to bestow on such wanton so frequently as they were the soldiers of the cross going on their mission of mercy to snatch the from the fires of hell dress the wounds of their horses with melted fat cut from the bodies of the natives they were to convert l cap mr makes no comment has the slaves with a hot iron in the cheek this more than ten times mr but twice and then has no word to bay � more than if they had been with water the at was terrible as it was needless and wanton more than three thousand of the enemy perished in ten hours says mr thia has left a dark on the memory of the that he does not intend to their cruel deeds and then to excuse this very cruelty we confess our at such an excuse vol ii � the at after the capture of the city was terrible we will not dwell 