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ed among the group which he named Tortugas; and, despairing of entire success, he returned to Porto Rico, leaving a trusty follower to continue the research. The Indians had every where displayed determined hostility. Ponce de Leon remained an old man; but Spanish commerce acquired a new channel through the Gulf of Florida, and Spain a new province, which imagination could esteem immeasurably rich, since its interior was unknown. The government of Florida was the reward which Chap. II.} 1513. Ponce received from the king of Spain; but the dignity was accompanied with the onerous condition, that he should colonize the country which he was appointed to rule. Preparations in Spain, and an expedition against 1514 to 1520. the Caribbee Indians, delayed his return to Florida. When, after a long interval, he proceeded with two 1521. ships to take possession of his province and select a site for a colony, his company was attacked by the Indians with implacable fury. Many Spaniards w
labor in the mines; and, because it was said, that one negro could do the work of four Indians, the direct traffic in slaves between Guinea and Hispaniola was enjoined by a royal ordinance, Ibid. d. i. l. IX. c. v. Herrera is explicit. The note of the French translator of Navarette, i .203, 204, needs correction. A commerce in negroes, sanctioned by the crown, was surely not contraband. and de- 1511. liberately sanctioned by repeated decrees. Irving's Columbus, III. 372. Was it 1512-3 not natural that Charles V., a youthful monarch, surrounded by rapacious courtiers, should have readily granted licenses to the Flemings to transport Negroes 1516. to the colonies? The benevolent Las Casas, who had seen the native inhabitants of the New World vanish away, like dew, before the cruelties of the Spaniards, who felt for the Indians all that an ardent charity and the purest missionary zeal could inspire, and who had seen the African thriving in robust Ibid. III. 370, 371. heal