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NOTES 301in a symposium on that book published in Pacific Studies, 13 (1990), esp. 292-94.44. Quoted in Guerra, "Earliest American Epidemic," 312-13.45. Morison, ed., Journals and Other Documents, p. 65.46. Fernando Colon, The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus by HisSon Ferdinand, translated by Benjamin Keen (New Brunswick: Rutgers UniversityPress, 1959), p. 170. For another instance, in which the Spanish provoked thenatives to throw rocks at them, causing a Spanish retaliation that casually killed acouple of dozen Indians, see the report by Cuneo in Morison, Journals and OtherDocuments, p. 222.47. Bartolome de Las Casas, The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account[1542], translated by Herma Briffault (New York: Seabury Press, 1974), pp. 54-55.48. Carl Ortwin Sauer, The Early Spanish Main (Berkeley: University of CaliforniaPress, 1966), pp. 86-87. .49. Bartolome de Las Casas History of the Indies, translated and edited byAndree Collard (New York: Harper & Row, 1971), p. 94.50. Quoted in Todorov, Conquest of America, pp. 139-40.51. Ibid., p. 139.52. Las Casas, History of the Indies, p. 121.53. Sauer, Early Spanish Main, p. 89.54. Sherburne F. Cook and Woodrow Borah, "The Aboriginal Population ofHispaniola," in Cook and Borah, Essays in Population History: Mexico and theCaribbean, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971), Volume One, pp. 402-403.55. Linda Newson, The Cost of Conquest: Indian Decline in Honduras UnderSpanish Rule (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1986), pp. 107-108.56. Saver, Early Spanish Main, p. 101.57. Las Casas, History of the Indies, p. 111.58. Ibid., pp. 112, 114.59. Quoted in John Boyd Thatcher, Christopher Columbus: His Life, His Work,His Remains (New York: Putnam's, 1903), Volume Two, pp. 348-49.60. Las Casas, History of the Indies, p. 110.61. Cook and Borah, "Aboriginal Population of Hispaniola," p. 401.62. For a list of these and other twentieth-century genocides, including estimatesof numbers killed, see Barbara Harff, "The Etiology of Genocides," in IsidorWallimann and Michael N. Dobkowski, eds., Genocide and the Modern Age:Etiology and Case Studies of Mass Death (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,1987), p. 46, Table 3.1.63. Inga Clendinnen, "The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society," Past and Present,107 (1985), 44-89.64. Ross Hassig, Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988), p. 237.65. Ibid., pp. 241-42.66. Hernan Cortes, Letters from Mexico, translated and edited by A.R. Pagden(New York: Grossman Publishers, 1971), p. 249.67. Inga Clendinnen, " 'Fierce and Unnatural Cruelty': Cortes and the Con-