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318 HISTORY OF THE PROPAGATION, &C. considers the bigotry and cruelty of the Portuguese, the first adventurers, and the mean and pitiful po- licy of their mercantile successors of all nations, viewing that policy in its influence upon the hap- piness and improvement of mankind. i