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English: "They would cut an Indian's hands and leave them dangling by a shred of skin ... [and] they would test their swords and their manly strength on captured Indians and place bets on the slicing off of heads or cutting of bodies in half with one blow. ... [One] cruel captain traveled over many leagues, capturing all the Indians he could find. Since the Indians would not tell him who their new lord was, he cut off the hands of some and threw others to the dogs, and thus they were torn to pieces."
Date 1590s
date QS:P,+1590-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
Source Included in later editions of Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias, 1552 by Bartolomé de las Casas
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Theodor de Bry  (1528–1598)  wikidata:Q708961
 
Theodor de Bry
Alternative names
Dietrich de Bry, Theodoor de Bry, Dirk de Bry
Description Southern Netherlandish engraver, drawer, editor and publisher
Date of birth/death 1528 / 1528 Edit this at Wikidata 27 March 1598 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Liège Frankfurt
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Liège, Straßburg, London, Frankfurt
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creator QS:P170,Q708961

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