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Haitian History: Galvan. Cross and the Sword (Enriquillo).
By Manuel de Jesus Galvan. Translated from the Spanish by Robert Graves. English edition 1954 from 1882 Spanish original. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Reviewed by Bob Corbett
July 1999
Haitian History: Notes on the Spanish Colonial Period
Bob Corbett
1995
INDIANS
Tribute. Columbus lied. He found bits of gold. There were/are some traces of gold in Haiti. But, he told the court that there were large amounts. Thus when he came on the second voyage there were expectations of great amounts of gold to be found. The Indians were given a tribute of so much gold that was to be paid to the kind.
Haitian History: King Ferdinand's Letter to the Tainos
De Las Casas is not terribly good about dating things and I can't figure out exactly when the letter below was written. It is in Book 3, section 57 in of his History of the Indies and he does say that the events of book three occurred between 1511 and 1520, and the letter is very early in the book.
