More than thirty other islands in the vicinity of San Juan are for the most part and for the same reason depopulated, and the land laid waste. (Bartolomé de las Casas)

More than thirty other islands in the vicinity of San Juan are for the most part and for the same reason depopulated, and the land laid waste.

Bartolomé de las Casas

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