In the end the Spaniards put down the
insurrection by treachery and cunning, seized the chiefs, and sent Andres
to Ceuta, in Spain, where he remained in prison till 1820.
We shall only say in addition that the Portuguese of Brazil treated the
natives of that land with a cruelty little less than that shown by the
Spaniards, sending out hunting expeditions to bring in Indians to serve as
slaves. Those who opposed them were shot down without mercy, and it is
said that, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, peasants infected
with the virus of smallpox were sent to the Botocudos, as a convenient
means of getting rid of that hostile tribe. As a result of all this, the
greater part of the tribes of Brazil completely disappeared. The natives
of South America obtained justice and honorable treatment only after the
people of that country had won their liberty.
CUDJOE, THE NEGRO CHIEF, AND THE MAROONS OF JAMAICA.
When the English conquered the island of Jamaica and drove the Spaniards
out of it, they failed to conquer its sable inhabitants, negroes who had
been slaves to the Spaniards, but who now fought for and maintained their
freedom.
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