[4] An antient Cacique, in his life-time and after his death, employed by the Zemi to alarm his people. See F. Columbus, c. 62.
[5] The Author is speaking in his inspired character. Hidden things are revealed to him, and placed before his mind as if they were present.
[6] Nor could they (the Powers of Darkness) have more effectually prevented the progress of the Faith, than by desolating the New World; by burying nations alive in mines, or consigning them in all their errors to the sword. Relacion de B. de las Casas.
[7] Not man alone, but many other animals became extinct there.
[8] P. Martyr, dec. iii. c. 7.
[9] Rochefort. c. xx. p. 559.
CANTO XII.
A Vision.
Still would I speak of Him before I went,
Who among us a life of sorrow spent,[[q]]
And, dying, left a world his monument;
Still, if the time allow’d! My Hour draws near;
But He will prompt me when I faint with fear.
—-Alas, He hears me not! He cannot hear!
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