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Dutch Aruban after 1650 Episodio XXIV

Pic.4. Golden Peacock
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On all three islands so-called red slaves were
also found, that is Inidans brought by the caci-
que from the continent. Principally these were
girls under age, or boys that had been taken
prisoners. In the nineteenth century there is a
relatively great number of such persons on the
island, Natives from other tribes that spoke their
own languge
Meanwhile the instructions issued by the com-
pany in 1635, which principally related to Cura-
cao, enjoined that everything should be done
to free the Indians from their “barbaric practic- Discoveran Aruba that no other could share with
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