Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-04-10

other Infirmities among Savages, where / |
have neither medicines nor Provisions for |
the Body, Priest or Sacrament for tie Soul |
my Men mutinying, my Brother, my Sor, |
aud those that are faithful sick, starvir & and |
dying. The Indians have abandoned US and
the Grace Of Saint Domingo Obando, has
sent rather to see IL am dead, than to sue
cor us or convey me alive from hence. For
his Boat neither delivered a Letter nor
spoke or would receive any from us; so l
concluded your Highness' Officers intend
how my Voyages and Life shall end.
80, blessed Mother of God that compass
sionateth the most miserable and oppressed,
why did not Cenell Bonadilla Bobadillal
kill me when he robbed me and my Brothers
OF our Dear.purchased Gold and sent us for
Spain in Chains without bearing Taint,
| Crime or Shadow of One? These Chains are
| all the Treasure have, And shall be buried
| with me il / chance to have a Coffin or
Grave for / would have the remembrance
| of so unjust an Act die with me and for the
/ Glory of the Spanish marine be eternally
forgotten. Had il not been so 90 blessed
| Virgin Obando had not then forced us to be
| dying ten or twelve Months aud to perish
| by malice as great as our Misfortune. q
let it not bring further Infamy on the
Csstilan name nor let Ages to come know
| there were Wretches so Vile in this, that
| thought to recommend themselves to Don
| Fernando by DESTROYING the Unfortunate and
| Miserable Christopher Columbus, not lor
his Crimes, but for his pretensious TO dls'
covering and giving to Spain New Norlo,
| at was you, o Heaven that inspired anti
| conducted me to 1t; do you therefore wet Y
for me and show Pity ? Let the Earth and
! every Soul in it that loves Justice or Mercy
weep for me; and you, q glorious Saints ol
God, who know my Innocency and see my
suffering, have Mercy.
"If this present Age is too enrious or ob
. durate TO weep fof me, surely those that are
to be born will do il, when they are tolC
Christopher Columbus with his own For
tune, the hazard of his own and his Brother
Life, with little or no expense to the crown
of Spain, in Twenty years and -Four Noy
, | ages, rendered greater services than Eve
Mortal Man did to Prince or Kingdom; ye
was forced TO perish without being chsrge
with the least Crimes poor and miserable
all but his chains being taken from him $
that he who gave Spain another world, ha
J | neither in that nor ii, a Cottage for hmseI
or his Family!
/, "But should Heaven still pursue me, an
seem displeased with what | have done,
J | If the Discovery of this World may be fats
u to the Old, and as a punishment living III
life in this miserable Place to its fatal perioC
: yet do you, o Good Angels You that succC
8 the Oppressed and Innocent, bring tn
$ paper to my Great Mistress she knows no
= much | have done and will believe what
have suffered for her Glory and Service
IS and will be so Just and Pious As not to /
% the Sons and Brothers of him, that hi
T. brought to Spain such enormous Riches al
"a added to it Vast and Unknown Kingdom
III and Empires want Bread, or live on aim
~ She (if she lives) will consider, that Cruel
y and Injustice Will provoke Heaven, and q
a Wealth / have discovered will stir up
tx Mankind to revenge and rspine, so that Il
u Nation may chance TO suffer hereafter 4
Id what Envious Malicious and Ungratef
re People do now."