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| | Travel Haiti |
 | | Haiti is a country situated on the western third of the island of Hispaniola and the smaller islands of La Gonâve, La Tortue (Tortuga), Grande Caye, and Ile a Vache in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba; the Dominican Republic shares Hispaniola with Haiti. |
 | | The Catholic priest and contempory historian Bartolome de Las Casas wrote in his multi-volume ''History of the Indies'' (1527-61): :There were 60,000 people living on this island when I arrived in 1508, including the Indians; so that from 1494 to 1508, over three million people had perished from war, slavery and the mines. |
 | | It is thought by many historians today that Las Casas's figures for the pre-contact levels of the Arawak population were an exaggeration and that a figure of slightly over a million original inhabitants is more likely, though others have argued for figures of up to eight million. |
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