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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: those remoter districts, where the humane edicts were disregarded
which the prayers of Dominican friars (to their everlasting honor
be it spoken) had wrung from the Spanish sovereigns, and which the
legislation of that most wise, virtuous, and heroic Inquisitor
(paradoxical as the words may seem), Pedro de la Gasca, had carried
into effect in Peru,--futile and tardy alleviations of cruelties
and miseries unexampled in the history of Christendom, or perhaps
on earth, save in the conquests of Sennacherib and Zingis Khan.
But on the frontiers, where negroes were imported to endure the
toil which was found fatal to the Indian, and all Indian tribes
convicted (or suspected) of cannibalism were hunted down for the
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