The tears of the Indians being an historical and true account of the cruel massacres and slaughters of above twenty millions of innocent people, committed by the Spaniards in the islands of Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, &c. : as also in the continent of Mexico, Peru, & other places of the West-Indies, to the total destruction of those countries / written in Spanish by Casaus, an eye-witness of those things ; and made English by J.P.
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Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566.
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The tears of the Indians being an historical and true account of the cruel massacres and slaughters of above twenty millions of innocent people, committed by the Spaniards in the islands of Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, &c. : as also in the continent of Mexico, Peru, & other places of the West-Indies, to the total destruction of those countries / written in Spanish by Casaus, an eye-witness of those things ; and made English by J.P.
Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias. English
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566.
Phillips, John, 1631-1706.
[32], 134 [i.e. 126], [1] p., [3] leaves of plates : 2ill.
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1656.
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Teares
of
ye
Indians
or
inquisition
for
Bloud
Being
a
Relation
of
ye
Spannish
Massacres
in
those
part
.
R
Gaywood
fecit
The
Tears
of
the
INDIANS
:
BEING
An
Historical
and
true
Account
Of
the
Cruel
Massacres
and
Slaughters
of
above
Twenty
Millions
of
innocent
People
;
Committed
by
the
Spaniards
In
the
Islands
of
Hispaniola
,
Cuba
,
Iamaica
,
&c.
As
also
,
in
the
Continent
of
Mexico
,
Peru
,
&
other
Places
of
the
West-Indies
,
To
the
total
destruction
of
those
Countries
.
Written
in
Spanish
by
Casaus
,
an
Eye-witness
of
those
things
;
And
made
English
by
I.
P.
DEUT.
29.15
.
Therefore
thine
eye
shall
have
no
compassion
;
but
life
for
life
,
tooth
for
tooth
,
hand
for
hand
,
foot
for
foot
.
LONDON
,
Printed
by
I.
C.
for
Nath.
Brook
,
at
the
Angel
in
Cornhil
.
1656.
TO
His
Highness
,
OLIVER
,
LORD
PROTECTOR
of
the
Commonwealth
of
England
,
Scotland
&
Ireland
,
With
the
Dominions
thereto
belonging
.
May
it
please
your
Highness
,
I
Have
here
laid
prostate
before
the
Throne
of
Your
Justice
,
above
Twenty
Millions
of
the
Souls
of
the
slaughter'd
Indians
;
whose
forc'd
departure
from
their
Bodies
,
Cruelty
it self
compassionates
.
Yet
me-thinks
I
hear
a
sudden
stillness
among
them
;
the
cry
of
Blood
ceasing
at
the
noise
of
Your
great
transactions
,
while
You
arm
for
their
Revenge
.
By
which
it
is
apparent
,
how
well
your
Highness
doth
observe
the
will
of
the
most
High
,
using
Your
vast
Power
and
Dignity
onely
to
the
advancement
of
his
Glory
among
the
Nations
:
while
the
Divine
Deitie
bequeathes
You
back
again
immediate
Recompences
;
crowning
You
,
like
his
holy
Warriour
,
David
,
with
the
highest
degree
of
earthly
Fame
.
Therefore
hath
he
inspired
your
Highness
with
a
Prowess
like
that
of
Ioshua
,
to
lead
his
Armies
forth
to
Battel
;
and
a
Zeal
more
devoutly
fervent
than
that
of
Iehu
,
to
cut
off
the
Idolater
from
the
earth
.
Which
Divine
vertues
appear
so
eminent
in
You
,
that
there
is
no
man
,
who
opposes
not
himself
against
Heaven
,
but
doth
extol
Your
just
Anger
against
the
Bloudy
and
Popish
Nation
of
the
Spaniards
,
whose
Superstitions
have
exceeded
those
of
Canaan
,
and
whose
Abominations
have
excell'd
those
of
Ahab
,
who
spilt
the
Blood
of
innocent
Naboth
,
to
obtain
his
Vineyard
.
And
now
,
may
it
please
your
Highness
,
God
having
given
You
a
full
Victory
over
Your
Enemies
in
this
Land
,
and
a
fix'd
Establishment
,
by
the
prosperous
and
total
quelling
of
those
pertinacious
Spirits
;
certainly
there
is
no
true
English-man
who
doth
not
lift
up
his
eyes
to
heaven
with
Thanks
to
Almighty
God
,
that
You
have
made
the
Land
so
happie
,
as
to
be
the
Admiration
of
other
Nations
,
who
have
laid
themselvs
at
Your
feet
for
Alliances
,
as
knowing
Your
wonderful
Successes
both
by
Sea
and
Land
.
Pardon
me
,
Great
Sir
,
if
next
my
zeal
to
Heaven
,
the
loud
Cry
of
so
many
bloudy
Massacres
,
far
surpassing
the
Popish
Cruelties
in
Ireland
,
the
Honour
of
my
Country
,
of
which
You
are
as
tender
as
of
the
Apple
of
Your
own
eye
,
hath
induced
me
,
out
of
a
constant
Affection
to
your
Highness
Service
,
to
publish
this
Relation
of
the
Spanish
Cruelties
;
whereby
all
good
men
may
see
and
applaud
the
Justness
of
Your
Proceedings
:
Being
confident
that
God
,
who
hath
put
this
Great
Designe
into
Your
Hands
,
will
also
be
pleased
to
give
it
a
signal
Blessing
;
which
is
the
Prayer
of
Your
HIGHNESS
most
faithful
,
and
most
obedient
Servant
,
I.
Phillips
.
To
all
true
English-men
.
NEver
had
we
so
just
cause
to
exclaim
in
the
words
of
the
Prophet
Jeremiah
;
O
that
our
heads
were
waters
,
and
our
eyes
fountains
of
tears
,
that
we
might
weep
for
the
Effusion
of
so
much
Innocent
Blood
which
provok'd
these
sad
Relations
of
devout
CASAUS
,
by
reason
of
the
cruel
Slaughters
and
Butcheries
of
the
Iesuitical
Spaniards
,
perpetrated
upon
so
many
Millions
of
poor
innocent
Heathens
,
who
having
onely
the
light
of
Nature
,
not
knowing
their
Saviour
Iesus
Christ
,
were
sacrificed
to
the
Politick
Interest
and
Avarice
of
the
wicked
Spaniards
.
The
blood
of
Ireland
,
spilt
by
the
same
Faction
,
in
comparison
of
these
Massacres
,
was
but
as
a
Drop
to
the
Ocean
.
It
was
the
Saying
of
Christ
himself
,
the
Son
of
Mercy
,
and
Redeemer
of
the
World
,
That
we
ought
not
to
cast
the
Childrens
Bread
to
dogs
:
But
what
would
he
have
judg'd
of
those
,
that
not
onely
cast
the
Bread
,
but
the
Blood
;
and
not
onely
the
Blood
,
but
the
Innocent
Blood
of
men
,
women
and
children
,
to
satisfie
the
contemptible
hunger
of
their
Hounds
?
The
intention
of
these
men
was
Murder
;
and
they
kill'd
up
the
poor
Indians
,
not
as
if
they
had
been
their
Fellow-Mortals
,
but
like
Death
it self
;
and
invaded
their
Land
,
not
like
Men
,
but
like
the
Pestilence
,
whose
destruction
is
Epidemical
.
When
our
own
Case
had
a
small
Resemblance
of
this
,
how
sensible
the
People
were
,
and
how
they
mourned
at
the
burning
of
a
poor
Village
;
the
usual
Accidents
,
or
rather
,
things
to
be
expected
,
in
a
tedious
and
necessitated
War
:
but
,
had
you
been
Eye-witnesses
of
the
transcending
Massacres
here
related
;
had
you
been
one
of
those
that
lately
saw
a
pleasant
Country
,
now
swarming
with
multitudes
of
People
,
but
immediately
all
depopulated
,
and
drown'd
in
a
Deluge
of
Bloud
:
had
you
been
one
of
those
that
saw
great
Cities
of
Nations
and
Countries
in
this
moment
flourishing
with
Inhabitants
,
but
in
the
next
,
totally
ruin'd
with
such
a
general
Desolation
,
as
left
neither
Person
living
,
nor
House
remaining
:
had
you
seen
the
poor
innocent
Heathens
shaming
and
upbraiding
,
with
the
ghastliness
of
their
Wounds
,
the
devilish
Cruelties
of
those
that
called
themselves
Christians
:
had
you
seen
the
poor
creatures
torn
from
the
peace
and
quiet
of
their
own
Habitations
,
where
God
had
planted
them
,
to
labour
in
a
Tormenting
Captivity
,
by
many
degrees
worse
then
that
of
Algier
,
or
the
Turkish
Galleys
;
your
Compassion
must
of
necessity
have
turn'd
into
Astonishment
:
the
tears
of
Men
can
hardly
suffice
;
these
are
Enormities
to
make
the
Angels
mourn
and
bewail
the
loss
of
so
many
departed
souls
,
as
might
have
been
converted
and
redeemed
to
their
eternal
Mansions
.
We
read
of
old
,
of
the
Ten
Persecutions
wherein
the
Primitive
Christians
were
destroy'd
by
the
Cruelties
of
the
Heathen
Emperours
:
but
we
now
read
of
Christians
,
the
Professors
of
a
Religion
grounded
upon
Love
and
Charity
,
massacring
,
where
there
was
no
cause
of
Antipathy
,
but
their
own
obstinate
Barbarism
;
as
if
because
their
Wickedness
had
so
far
transform'd
them
into
Devils
,
they
were
resolved
to
deface
the
image
of
God
,
so
innocently
conversing
among
them
.
The
Turks
and
Scythians
shall
be
now
no
more
the
Adagies
of
Cruelty
among
us
;
for
here
is
a
Christian
Nation
which
hath
taken
off
that
Envie
from
them
,
and
entayl'd
it
upon
themselves
.
And
now
,
O
men
of
England
,
let
me
ask
you
but
this
Question
;
Whether
you
,
that
for
these
many
years
have
had
the
Honour
to
be
the
Patrons
of
Religion
;
whose
Charity
hath
still
relieved
,
and
whose
Power
hath
still
defended
the
Cause
of
the
Oppressed
at
home
and
abroad
;
whether
you
can
withdraw
your
Assistance
from
this
Great
Work
,
and
deprive
your selves
of
that
Birth-right
which
you
seem
to
have
among
the
Nations
,
God
still
continuing
the
Management
of
his
Iustice
in
the
hands
of
our
most
Fortunate
and
Lawful
Magistrate
,
whom
he
hath
rais'd
up
,
as
his
Great
Instrument
,
to
revenge
the
Blood
of
that
innocent
People
.
Consider
this
,
moreover
,
That
you
are
not
uow
to
fight
against
your
Country-men
,
but
against
your
Old
and
Constant
Enemies
,
the
SPANIARDS
,
a
Proud
,
Deceitful
,
Cruel
,
and
Treacherous
Nation
,
whose
chiefest
Aim
hath
been
the
Conquest
of
this
Land
,
and
to
enslave
the
People
of
this
Nation
;
witness
those
Invasions
in
the
days
of
Queen
ELIZABETH
;
whose
Leagues
of
Amity
we
had
more
reason
to
repent
of
,
then
to
rejoyce
at
,
as
being
destructive
to
the
Nation
,
and
made
with
those
that
onely
sought
the
Advantages
of
Peace
,
that
they
might
be
more
safe
to
do
us
Mischief
:
and
so
little
they
car'd
for
Peace
with
us
,
that
they
never
sought
it
,
but
when
meer
Vrgencies
of
State
requir'd
;
and
never
kept
their
Articles
,
when
they
had
the
least
hope
of
Profit
to
themselves
:
Of
which
we
need
not
look
for
ancient
Examples
;
they
are
fresh
in
Memory
,
and
have
been
too
sadly
and
undeservedly
sustain'd
,
both
nearer
home
,
and
of
late
years
in
the
West-Indies
also
,
as
appears
by
that
Pious
and
Prudent
DECLARATION
set
forth
by
his
Highness
the
LORD
PROTECTOR
;
as
if
Providence
had
so
ordain'd
it
,
that
by
the
Wrongs
of
our
Country-men
in
those
Parts
,
we
should
be
interested
in
the
Quarrel
of
those
Innocent
Nations
.
Neither
need
we
to
fear
the
Vaunts
of
the
Spanish
Monarch
,
whose
Government
stands
not
on
those
strong
Foundations
that
some
imagine
;
Blood
and
Tyrannie
being
the
chief
Pillars
of
his
Greatness
,
or
rather
,
his
Arcana
Imperii
;
&
his
Empire
being
onely
strong
in
this
,
That
the
Weaknesses
thereof
have
not
yet
been
well
look'd
into
.
Should
we
chase
him
from
his
Indian
Treasures
,
he
would
soon
retire
to
his
Shell
,
like
a
Snail
tapt
upon
the
horns
.
And
perhaps
it
would
not
a
little
avail
to
the
General
Peace
of
Europe
,
whereby
we
should
be
strengthened
against
the
Common
Enemy
of
Christianitie
.
For
doubtless
it
hath
been
the
Satanical
Scope
of
this
Tyrant
,
To
set
all
the
European
Princes
at
Variance
,
and
to
keep
them
busie
at
home
,
that
they
might
not
have
leasure
to
bend
their
Forces
against
his
Golden
Regions
.
But
he
pretends
a
Right
to
them
,
though
upon
very
slender
Grounds
:
for
that
the
English
may
better
claim
then
himself
;
it
being
first
discovered
,
as
is
well
known
,
and
tendered
to
Henry
the
Seventh
,
by
Sebastian
Cabot
,
one
of
his
own
Captains
.
Which
brings
to
minde
the
Poor
Spirits
of
our
English
Kings
,
who
would
not
regard
such
an
Advantage
,
so
highly
importing
the
Honour
of
the
Nation
,
so
far
as
to
be
almost
guilty
of
the
Bloud
shed
in
those
parts
,
through
their
neglect
.
But
for
farther
satisfaction
concerning
the
Right
of
the
English
to
the
West-Indies
,
I
shall
refer
you
to
a
further
Treatise
,
which
I
may
ere
long
put
forth
.
And
now
,
honoured
Country-men
,
seeing
that
by
Divine
Providence
the
Cruelties
and
Barbarous
Massacres
of
the
Spaniards
have
been
so
apparently
presented
to
you
,
I
cannot
but
be
confident
of
your
Endeavours
,
as
you
tender
the
Good
and
Welfare
of
your
Native
Country
,
to
acquit
your selves
in
so
just
a
Cause
,
which
God
hath
put
into
the
Heart
and
Hands
of
our
Supreme
Magistrate
,
who
is
so
Vigilant
to
embrace
all
Opportunities
for
the
Good
of
the
Nation
.
Tears
of
the
Indies
,
or
Inquisition
for
Bloud
:
being
the
Relation
of
the
Spanish
Massacre
there
.
IN
the
year
1492.
the
West-Indies
were
discovered
,
in
the
following
year
they
were
inhabited
by
the
Spaniards
:
a
great
company
of
the
Spaniards
going
about
49.
years
agoe
.
The
first
place
they
came
to
,
was
Hispaniola
,
being
a
most
fertile
Island
,
and
for
the
bignesse
of
it
very
famous
,
it
being
no
less
then
six
hundred
miles
in
compass
.
Round
about
it
lie
an
innumerable
company
of
Islands
,
so
throng'd
with
Inhabitants
,
that
there
is
not
to
be
found
a
greater
multitude
of
people
in
any
part
of
the
world
.
The
Continent
is
distant
from
this
about
Two
hundred
miles
,
stretching
it self
out
in
length
upon
the
sea
side
for
above
Ten
thousand
miles
in
length
.
This
is
already
found
out
,
and
more
is
daily
discovered
.
These
Countreys
are
inhabited
by
such
a
number
of
people
,
as
if
God
had
assembled
and
called
together
to
this
place
,
the
greatest
part
of
Mankinde
.
This
infinite
multitude
of
people
was
so
created
by
God
,
as
that
they
were
without
fraud
,
without
subtilty
or
malice
,
to
their
natural
Governours
most
faithful
and
obedient
.
Toward
the
Spaniards
whom
they
serve
,
patient
,
meek
and
peaceful
,
and
who
laying
all
contentious
and
tumultuous
thoughts
aside
,
live
without
any
hatred
or
desire
of
revenge
;
the
people
are
most
delicate
and
tender
,
enjoying
such
a
feeble
constitution
of
body
as
does
not
permit
them
to
endure
labour
,
so
that
the
Children
of
Princes
and
great
persons
here
,
are
not
more
nice
and
delicate
then
the
Children
of
the
meanest
Countrey-man
in
that
place
.
The
Nation
is
very
poor
and
indigent
,
possessing
little
,
and
by
reason
that
they
gape
not
after
temporal
goods
,
neither
proud
nor
ambitious
.
Their
diet
is
such
that
the
most
holy
Hermite
cannot
feed
more
sparingly
in
the
wildernesse
.
They
go
naked
,
only
hiding
the
undecencies
of
nature
,
and
a
poor
shag
mantle
about
an
ell
or
two
long
is
their
greatest
and
their
warmest
covering
.
They
lie
upon
mats
,
only
whose
who
have
larger
fortunes
,
lye
upon
a
kinde
of
net
which
is
tied
at
the
four
corners
,
and
so
fasten'd
to
the
roof
,
which
the
Indians
in
their
natural
language
call
Hamecks
.
They
are
of
a
very
apprehensive
and
docible
wit
,
and
capable
of
all
good
learning
,
and
very
apt
to
receive
our
Religion
,
which
when
they
have
but
once
tasted
,
they
are
carryed
on
with
a
very
ardent
and
zealous
desire
to
make
a
further
progress
in
it
;
so
that
I
have
heard
divers
Spaniards
confesse
that
they
had
nothing
else
to
hinder
them
from
enjoying
heaven
,
but
their
ignorance
of
the
true
God
.
To
these
quiet
Lambs
,
endued
with
such
blessed
qualities
,
came
the
Spaniards
like
most
cruel
Tygres
,
Wolves
,
and
Lions
,
enrag'd
with
a
sharp
and
tedious
hunger
;
for
these
forty
years
past
,
minding
nothing
else
but
the
slaughter
of
these
unfortunate
wretches
,
whom
with
divers
kinds
of
torments
neither
seen
nor
heard
of
before
,
they
have
so
cruelly
and
inhumanely
butchered
,
that
of
three
millions
of
people
which
Hispaniola
it self
did
contain
,
there
are
left
remaining
alive
scarce
three
hundred
persons
.
And
for
the
Island
of
Cuba
,
which
contains
as
much
ground
in
length
,
as
from
Valladolid
to
Rome
;
it
lies
wholly
desert
,
untill'd
and
ruin'd
.
The
Islands
of
St.
Iohn
and
Iamaica
lie
waste
and
desolate
.
The
Lucayan
Islands
neighbouring
toward
the
North
upon
Cuba
and
Hispaniola
,
being
above
Sixty
or
thereabouts
with
those
Islands
that
are
vulgarly
called
the
Islands
of
the
Gyants
,
of
which
that
which
is
least
fertile
is
more
fruitful
then
the
King
of
Spains
Garden
at
Sevil
,
being
situated
in
a
pure
and
temperate
air
,
are
now
totally
unpeopled
and
destroyed
;
the
inhabitants
thereof
amounting
to
above
500000.
souls
,
partly
killed
,
and
partly
forced
away
to
work
in
other
places
:
so
that
there
going
a
ship
to
visit
those
parts
and
to
glean
the
remainder
of
those
distressed
wretches
,
there
could
be
found
no
more
then
eleven
men
.
Other
Islands
there
were
near
the
Island
of
St.
Iohn
more
then
thirty
in
number
,
which
were
totally
made
desert
.
All
which
Islands
,
though
they
amount
to
such
a
number
containing
in
length
of
ground
the
space
of
above
Two
thousand
miles
,
lie
now
altogether
solitary
without
any
people
or
Inhabitant
.
Now
to
come
to
the
Continent
,
we
are
confident
,
and
dare
affirm
upon
our
own
knowledge
,
that
there
were
ten
Kingdomes
of
as
large
an
extent
as
the
Kingdome
of
Spain
,
joyning
to
it
both
Arragon
,
and
Portugal
,
containing
above
a
thousand
miles
every
one
of
them
in
compass
,
which
the
unhumane
and
abominable
villanies
of
the
Spaniards
have
made
a
wilderness
of
,
being
now
as
it
were
stript
of
all
their
people
,
and
made
bare
of
all
their
inhabitants
,
though
it
were
a
place
formerly
possessed
by
vast
and
infinite
numbers
of
men
;
And
we
dare
confidently
aver
,
that
for
those
Forty
years
,
wherin
the
Spaniards
exercised
their
abominable
cruelties
,
and
detestable
tyrannies
in
those
parts
,
that
there
have
innocently
perish'd
above
Twelve
millions
of
souls
,
women
and
children
being
numbred
in
this
sad
and
fatall
list
;
moreover
I
do
verily
believe
that
I
should
speak
within
compass
,
should
I
say
that
above
Fifty
millions
were
consumed
in
this
Massacre
.
As
for
those
that
came
out
of
Spain
,
boasting
themselves
to
be
Christians
,
they
took
two
several
waies
to
extirpate
this
Nation
from
the
face
of
the
Earth
,
the
first
whereof
was
a
bloudy
,
unjust
,
and
cruel
war
which
they
made
upon
them
:
a
second
by
cutting
off
all
that
so
much
as
sought
to
recover
their
liberty
,
as
some
of
the
stouter
sort
did
intend
.
And
as
for
the
Women
and
Children
that
were
lest
alive
,
they
laid
so
heavy
and
grievous
a
yoke
of
servitude
upon
them
that
the
condition
of
beasts
was
much
more
tolerable
.
Unto
these
two
heads
all
the
other
several
torments
and
inhumanities
which
they
used
to
the
ruine
of
these
poor
Nations
may
be
reduced
.
That
which
led
the
Spaniards
to
these
unsanctified
impieties
was
the
desire
of
Gold
,
to
make
themselves
suddenly
rich
,
for
the
obtaining
of
dignities
&
honours
which
were
no
way
fit
for
them
.
In
a
word
,
their
covetousness
,
their
ambition
,
which
could
not
be
more
in
any
people
under
heaven
,
the
riches
of
the
Countrey
,
and
the
patience
of
the
people
gave
occasion
to
this
their
devillish
barbarism
.
For
the
Spaniards
so
contemned
them
(
I
now
speak
what
I
have
seen
without
the
least
untruth
)
that
they
used
them
not
like
beasts
,
for
that
would
have
been
tolerable
,
but
looked
upon
them
as
if
they
had
been
but
the
dung
and
filth
of
the
earth
,
and
so
little
they
regarded
the
health
of
their
souls
,
that
they
suffered
this
great
multitude
to
die
without
the
least
light
of
Religion
;
neither
is
this
lesse
true
then
what
I
have
said
before
,
and
that
which
those
tyrants
and
hangmen
themselves
dare
not
deny
,
without
speaking
a
notorious
falshood
,
that
the
Indians
neevr
gave
them
the
least
cause
to
offer
them
violence
,
but
received
them
as
Angels
sent
from
heaven
,
till
their
excessive
cruelties
,
the
torments
and
slaughters
of
their
Country-men
mov'd
them
to
take
Armes
against
the
Spaniards
.
Of
Hispaniola
.
They
erected
certain
Gallowses
,
that
were
broad
but
so
low
,
that
the
tormented
creatures
might
touch
the
ground
with
their
feet
,
upon
every
one
of
which
they
would
hang
thirteen
persons
,
blasphemously
affirming
that
they
did
it
in
honour
of
our
Redeemer
and
his
Apostles
,
and
then
putting
fire
under
them
,
they
burnt
the
poor
wretches
alive
.
Those
whom
their
pity
did
think
fit
to
spare
,
they
would
send
away
with
their
hands
half
cut
off
,
and
so
hanging
by
the
skin
.
Thus
upbraiding
their
flight
,
Go
carry
letters
to
those
who
lye
hid
in
the
mountains
and
are
fled
from
us
.
This
Death
they
found
out
also
for
the
Lords
and
Nobles
of
the
Land
;
they
stuck
up
forked
sticks
in
the
ground
,
and
then
laid
certain
perches
upon
them
,
and
so
laying
them
upon
those
perches
,
they
put
a
gentle
fire
under
,
causing
the
fire
to
melt
them
away
by
degrees
,
to
their
unspeakable
torment
.
One
time
above
the
rest
I
saw
four
of
the
Nobles
laid
upon
these
perches
,
and
two
or
three
other
of
these
kinde
of
hurdles
furnished
after
the
same
manner
;
the
clamours
and
cries
of
which
persons
being
troublesome
to
the
Captain
,
he
gave
order
that
they
should
be
hang'd
,
but
the
Executioner
whose
name
I
know
,
and
whose
parents
are
not
obscure
,
hindred
their
Calamity
from
so
quick
a
conclusion
,
stopping
their
mouthes
,
that
they
should
not
disturb
the
Captain
,
and
still
laying
on
more
wood
,
till
being
roasted
according
to
his
pleasure
,
they
yeelded
up
the
ghost
.
Of
these
and
other
things
innumerable
I
have
been
an
eye-witnesse
;
Now
because
there
were
some
that
shun'd
like
so
many
rocks
the
cruelty
of
a
Nation
so
inhumane
,
so
void
of
piety
and
love
to
mankinde
,
and
therefore
fled
from
them
to
the
mountains
;
therefore
they
hunted
them
with
their
Hounds
,
whom
they
bred
up
and
taught
to
pull
down
and
tear
the
Indians
like
beasts
:
by
these
Dogs
much
humane
bloud
was
shed
;
and
because
the
Indians
did
now
and
then
kill
a
Spaniard
,
taking
him
at
an
advantage
,
as
justly
they
might
;
therefore
the
Spaniards
made
a
Law
among
themselves
,
that
for
one
Spaniard
so
slaine
,
they
should
kill
a
hundred
Indians
.
Of
the
Kingdomes
which
the
Island
of
Hispaniola
did
contain
.
THE
Island
of
Hispaniola
had
in
it
five
very
great
Kingdomes
,
and
five
very
potent
Kings
,
to
whom
the
other
Lords
,
of
which
there
was
a
very
great
number
were
for
the
most
part
subject
;
for
there
were
some
few
Lords
of
peculiar
Countries
that
did
not
acknowledge
the
jurisdiction
of
these
Kings
;
one
of
these
Kingdomes
is
called
Maqua
,
which
signifies
a
plain
.
This
Plain
if
there
be
any
thing
in
the
world
worth
taking
notice
,
claims
a
very
nice
observation
.
For
from
the
South
to
the
North
it
is
stretcht
forward
fourscore
miles
in
length
;
in
breadth
it
takes
up
sometimes
eight
,
sometimes
five
,
and
sometimes
ten
miles
,
on
all
sides
it
is
shut
up
with
very
high
mountains
;
it
is
watered
by
thirty
thousand
Rivers
and
Rivolets
,
whereof
twelve
are
not
lesse
then
either
Duerus
,
Ebrus
,
or
Guadalgevir
:
and
all
the
Rivers
which
run
from
the
Mountains
on
the
West
side
,
whose
number
is
twenty
thousand
,
do
all
of
them
abound
with
gold
.
With
which
Mountain
the
Province
of
Cibao
is
bounded
,
where
are
the
Mines
of
Cibao
,
that
afford
the
most
exquisite
and
pure
Gold
which
is
so
much
valued
among
us
.
This
Kingdome
was
govern'd
by
Guarionex
,
who
had
under
his
jurisdiction
as
his
vassals
,
Lords
and
Governors
so
potent
,
that
every
one
of
them
was
able
to
bring
into
the
field
for
the
service
of
Guarionex
,
above
Sixteen
thousand
men
apiece
.
Some
of
which
Lords
I
very
well
knew
;
this
King
was
not
meanly
vertuous
,
by
nature
peaceful
,
and
much
devoted
to
the
King
of
Castile
.
This
King
commanded
his
subjects
that
they
should
present
to
the
Spaniards
a
bell
full
of
Gold
,
which
when
they
were
not
able
to
do
by
reason
that
the
people
had
but
little
skill
how
to
dig
out
the
Gold
,
he
thereupon
commanded
them
to
present
the
Spaniards
with
as
much
as
they
could
fill
.
Here
a
Cacicus
or
Governour
offer'd
himself
to
the
service
of
the
King
of
Castile
,
upon
condition
,
that
he
would
take
care
that
all
the
Countrey
from
Isabella
to
St.
Domingo
,
being
five
hundred
miles
in
length
,
might
be
till'd
;
which
promises
I
am
very
confident
he
would
cheerfully
have
performed
;
and
then
might
the
King
of
Castile
have
had
a
revenue
of
above
Three
millions
of
Castilian
Crowns
,
and
there
had
been
still
remaining
in
the
Island
above
fifty
Cities
as
large
all
of
them
as
Sevill
.
But
what
was
the
recompence
which
they
afforded
to
this
milde
and
bountiful
Prince
?
they
suffered
one
of
the
Spanish
Captains
unworthy
of
the
name
of
a
Christian
to
vitiate
his
Wife
.
He
might
have
raised
an
army
and
endevoured
a
revenge
▪
but
he
rather
chose
to
leave
his
Kingdome
and
his
dignity
,
and
to
live
a
banished
person
in
the
Province
of
Coquaios
,
where
a
potent
vassal
and
subject
of
his
inhabited
.
But
the
Spaniards
hearing
of
his
flght
,
resolved
not
to
let
him
lurk
anywhere
;
but
immediately
making
war
upon
him
that
had
received
them
so
liberally
,
they
never
rested
till
they
had
wasted
all
the
Kingdome
to
finde
him
out
,
at
length
he
fell
into
their
hands
;
and
no
sooner
had
they
taken
him
,
but
they
fettered
him
immediately
,
putting
him
into
a
ship
that
was
bound
for
Spain
;
but
the
ship
was
wrackt
by
the
way
,
many
Spaniards
perishing
,
and
a
great
treasure
of
Gold
being
lost
;
God
so
taking
revenge
upon
their
enormities
.
Another
Kingdome
was
called
Marien
,
where
there
is
a
port
at
one
end
of
the
plain
that
looks
toward
the
North
,
being
larger
and
more
fertile
then
the
Kingdome
of
Portugal
,
and
which
very
well
deserves
to
be
better
peopled
;
for
it
abounds
with
Mountains
wherein
are
great
store
of
Gold
Mines
.
The
name
of
the
King
that
there
ruled
was
Guacanagari
,
under
whom
there
were
many
other
potent
Lords
,
some
of
whom
I
knew
:
To
this
place
came
the
old
sea
Captain
that
first
discovered
America
,
who
was
received
with
so
much
courtesie
and
friendship
by
Guacanagari
,
who
gave
him
and
his
associates
all
the
help
and
assistance
that
might
be
(
for
his
ship
was
there
sunk
)
that
upon
his
return
into
Spain
he
would
often
affirm
,
that
his
own
parents
in
his
own
Countrey
were
never
so
friendly
to
him
.
This
King
flying
from
the
cruelty
and
enormous
murders
of
the
Spaniards
,
being
depriv'd
of
his
Kingdome
,
died
poorly
in
the
mountains
.
The
rest
of
his
Nobles
ended
their
lives
in
that
servitude
and
slavery
which
shall
be
hereafter
related
.
The
third
Kingdome
was
Maquana
,
a
Countrey
very
temperate
and
fertile
,
where
the
best
Sugar
in
that
Island
is
made
.
In
this
Countrey
at
that
time
Canabao
did
reign
,
who
for
power
,
dignity
,
gravity
,
and
the
ceremonies
which
were
used
towards
him
,
far
exceeded
the
rest
.
This
King
suspecting
nothing
lesse
,
was
by
the
craft
and
subtlety
of
the
Spaniards
taken
in
his
own
house
;
whom
when
they
had
taken
they
put
a
shipboard
to
send
him
to
Castile
;
but
there
being
six
ships
in
the
Port
ready
to
set
sayle
,
the
sea
began
to
swell
so
high
,
and
to
be
so
unruly
,
that
all
the
six
ships
with
the
Spaniards
in
them
,
together
with
King
Canabao
,
who
was
laden
with
chains
,
all
perished
in
the
waves
.
The
great
God
shewing
the
Judgements
of
his
wrath
upon
these
unjust
and
wicked
wretches
as
he
had
done
upon
the
others
.
This
King
had
three
or
four
brothers
stout
and
valiant
men
,
who
being
offended
at
the
Captivity
of
their
Lord
and
King
,
hearing
of
the
devastations
and
rapines
daily
committed
by
the
Spaniards
in
these
Countries
,
and
understanding
that
their
brother
was
dead
,
resolved
to
take
armes
for
the
reliefe
of
their
Countrey
;
but
the
Spaniards
meeting
them
with
a
certain
number
of
horse
,
which
are
a
very
great
terror
to
the
Indians
made
such
a
slaughter
among
them
,
that
they
depopulated
the
greatest
part
of
this
Countrey
.
The
Fourth
Kingdome
was
called
Xaraqua
,
being
in
the
centre
and
middle
of
the
whole
Island
,
for
eloquence
of
language
,
as
also
for
good
government
and
gentile
customes
,
it
excels
all
the
rest
,
there
was
in
it
a
great
company
of
Lords
and
noble
men
,
and
for
the
people
themselves
they
were
the
most
comely
in
the
whole
Island
.
The
King
of
this
Countrey
was
called
Behechio
,
who
had
a
sister
who
was
called
Anacaona
.
Both
the
Brother
and
the
Sister
were
very
bountifull
to
the
Spaniards
,
for
they
had
freed
them
from
the
dangers
of
imminent
death
,
shewing
great
kindnesses
to
the
Kings
of
Castile
.
Behechio
being
dead
,
the
Kingdome
was
solely
govern'd
by
his
Sister
.
Now
it
happened
one
day
,
that
the
Governour
of
the
Island
with
sixty
Horse
,
and
three
hundred
Foot
(
though
the
Horsemen
were
sufficient
not
only
to
wast
the
Island
,
but
also
the
whole
Continent
)
cal'd
to
him
about
three
hundred
of
the
Peers
and
Lords
of
the
Nation
,
the
greatest
part
whereof
who
were
the
more
powerful
,
having
by
craft
got
them
together
in
a
straw
Cottage
,
he
cause
to
be
burnt
alive
together
with
the
house
,
the
rest
with
an
infinite
sight
of
people
he
caused
to
be
put
to
death
by
the
Souldiers
,
who
murdred
the
poor
people
like
dogs
with
their
Swords
and
Launces
.
As
for
Anacaona
the
Queen
,
that
he
might
seem
to
be
more
courteous
to
her
,
he
caused
her
to
hang
her self
.
And
if
it
happened
that
any
who
were
either
moved
with
compassion
,
or
covetousnesse
,
thinking
to
make
lacqueys
or
servants
of
the
Children
,
had
set
them
behinde
their
horses
,
another
would
come
behinde
them
,
and
either
run
them
through
,
or
cut
off
their
legs
if
they
hung
down
upon
the
horse
sides
.
And
when
certain
of
the
Indians
,
who
escaped
this
furious
massacre
fled
into
an
Island
distant
from
them
about
some
eight
miles
,
they
were
by
the
Governour
condemned
to
perpetual
servitude
.
The
wars
being
now
at
an
end
,
and
the
inhabitants
all
killed
up
,
the
women
and
children
being
only
reserved
,
they
divided
them
among
themselves
,
giving
to
one
thirty
,
to
another
forty
,
to
one
a
hundred
,
to
another
two
hundred
,
and
those
that
had
most
,
received
them
on
this
condition
,
that
they
should
instruct
them
in
the
Catholick
Faith
,
though
commonly
their
Masters
were
a
company
of
stupid
,
ignorant
,
and
covetous
fellowes
,
and
defiled
with
all
manner
of
vices
.
But
the
main
care
was
to
send
the
men
to
work
in
the
Gold
Mines
,
which
is
an
intolerable
labour
,
and
to
send
the
women
to
manure
and
till
the
ground
;
an
exercise
fit
only
for
the
stoutest
men
.
These
they
fed
with
nothing
but
roots
and
hearbs
,
so
that
the
milk
of
women
with
childe
being
dried
up
,
by
that
reason
the
poor
little
infants
died
.
And
the
men
being
separated
from
the
women
,
there
was
no
more
issue
to
be
expected
from
them
.
The
men
perished
in
the
Gold
Mines
with
hunger
and
labour
,
the
women
perished
in
the
fields
,
being
tired
out
with
the
same
calamities
:
and
thus
was
a
vast
number
of
the
inhabitants
of
this
Island
wholly
extirpated
.
Besides
all
this
they
caused
them
to
carry
great
burdens
of
a
hundred
and
fourscore
pound
,
and
to
travell
with
it
a
hundred
or
two
hundred
miles
.
They
were
also
forc'd
to
carry
the
Spaniards
up
and
down
in
their
Hamechs
,
using
them
in
manner
of
beasts
to
carry
their
burthens
and
the
necessaries
of
their
journeys
.
And
as
for
the
blows
which
they
gave
them
with
whips
,
cudgels
and
their
fists
,
wherewith
they
continually
tormented
them
in
their
labour
,
I
could
be
hardly
able
to
finde
either
time
or
paper
to
make
a
narration
large
enough
of
those
things
.
Now
it
is
here
to
be
noted
that
the
desolation
of
these
Islands
and
Provinces
happened
after
the
death
of
Queen
Isabel
,
who
deceased
in
the
year
1504
,
for
before
that
time
few
of
the
Provinces
were
intrenched
upon
by
any
unjust
war
,
or
over-flowed
with
this
deluge
of
devastation
;
or
if
any
thing
was
before
that
time
done
,
it
was
conceal'd
from
the
knowledge
of
the
Queen
,
for
she
was
alwayes
zealous
and
solicitous
for
the
safety
and
prosperity
of
this
poor
people
.
And
this
may
be
also
a
generall
rule
,
that
the
Spaniards
to
what
ever
part
of
the
Indies
they
did
come
to
,
after
that
time
ceased
not
to
exercise
their
abominable
slaughters
,
tyrannies
,
and
execrable
oppressions
upon
the
poor
people
,
and
being
delighted
with
new
kindes
of
torments
,
daily
encreased
their
cruelty
and
rage
.
Of
the
Islands
St.
John
and
Jamaica
.
IN
the
year
1509.
the
Islands
of
St.
Iohn
and
Iamaica
that
look'd
like
fruitful
gardens
,
were
possessed
by
the
Spaniards
,
with
the
same
bloudy
intentions
,
as
the
other
were
;
for
there
they
also
exercised
their
accustomed
cruelties
,
killing
,
burning
,
roasting
men
,
and
throwing
them
to
the
dogs
,
as
also
by
oppressing
them
with
sundry
and
various
torments
in
the
Gold
Mines
,
as
if
they
had
come
to
rid
the
earth
of
these
innocent
and
harmelesse
creatures
,
of
whom
above
six
hundred
thousand
were
murthered
in
these
two
Islands
,
so
lavish
were
the
Spanish
swords
of
the
bloud
of
these
poor
souls
,
scarce
two
hundred
more
remaining
;
the
rest
perished
without
the
least
knowledge
of
God
.
Of
the
Island
of
Cuba
.
IN
the
year
,
1511.
they
went
over
into
the
Island
of
Cuba
,
which
extends
as
far
in
length
as
it
is
from
Valladolid
to
Rome
,
in
which
there
were
many
fair
Provinces
,
inhabited
with
an
infinite
number
of
people
,
where
the
humanity
and
clemency
of
the
Spaniards
was
not
only
as
little
as
it
had
been
in
other
places
,
but
their
cruelty
and
rage
much
greater
.
In
this
Island
many
things
were
done
worthy
observation
.
A
certain
Lord
of
great
power
among
them
by
name
Hathvey
,
who
had
fled
over
to
Cuba
,
that
he
might
avoid
either
death
or
perpetual
captivity
,
hearing
by
some
of
the
Indians
that
the
Spaniards
were
also
come
into
this
Island
,
having
assembled
the
Indians
together
,
he
began
as
followeth
:
Countrymen
and
Friends
,
you
are
not
ignorant
of
the
rumour
by
which
we
understand
that
the
Spaniards
are
come
among
us
,
neither
am
I
now
to
tell
you
how
they
have
used
the
inhabitants
of
Hapti
(
so
the
call
Hispaniola
,
in
the
Indian
language
)
you
know
it
by
a
sad
experience
:
nor
can
we
hope
to
finde
them
more
merciful
then
they
did
.
Then
quoth
he
,
Countreymen
do
you
know
the
Errand
which
brings
them
hither
?
To
whom
they
replyed
,
that
was
unknown
to
them
,
yet
they
further
replyed
,
that
that
they
were
well
assured
of
the
cruel
nature
of
the
Spaniard
.
Then
quoth
he
,
I
le
tell
ye
the
cause
of
their
coming
.
They
do
worship
some
covetous
and
unsatisfied
Deity
,
and
to
content
the
greedy
worship
of
that
Celestial
Power
,
they
require
many
things
from
us
,
using
all
their
endevour
to
murther
and
enslave
us
.
Which
having
said
,
taking
up
a
little
Chest
filled
with
Gold
,
he
proceeded
in
these
words
:
Behold
here
the
God
of
the
Spaniards
,
and
therefore
if
you
think
fitting
,
let
us
daunce
and
sing
before
this
their
God
,
Perhaps
we
may
thereby
appease
his
rage
,
and
he
well
then
command
the
Spaniards
to
let
us
alone
:
Who
with
an
unanimous
shout
cryed
out
all
,
Well
said
,
well
said
;
and
so
they
went
to
dauncing
round
this
box
,
not
ceasing
till
they
had
sufficiently
wearied
themselves
.
Then
the
Lord
Hathvey
going
on
with
his
speech
,
quoth
he
,
If
we
do
keep
this
God
till
he
be
taken
from
us
,
we
shall
be
surely
slain
,
and
therefore
I
think
it
expedient
for
us
to
cast
it
into
the
River
;
so
his
counsell
being
followed
,
the
Chest
was
cast
into
the
River
.
When
the
Spaniards
had
landed
in
this
Island
,
this
noble
man
that
had
sufficient
tryal
of
their
manner
,
avoided
them
as
much
as
he
could
,
still
flying
from
them
and
defending
himself
by
force
of
armes
upon
all
occasions
.
But
at
length
being
taken
,
for
no
other
reason
,
but
because
he
fled
from
those
that
sought
his
life
,
and
defended
himself
that
he
might
not
be
tormented
to
death
,
he
was
by
the
Spaniards
burnt
alive
.
While
he
was
tyed
to
the
stake
,
there
came
to
him
a
Monk
of
the
Order
of
St.
Francis
,
who
began
to
talk
to
him
of
God
and
of
the
Articles
of
our
Faith
,
telling
him
,
that
the
small
respite
which
the
Executioner
gave
him
was
sufficient
for
him
to
make
sure
his
salvation
if
he
believed
.
Upon
which
words
after
Hathvey
had
a
little
while
paus'd
,
he
asked
the
Monk
if
the
door
of
heaven
was
open
to
the
Spaniards
,
who
answering
,
Yes
,
to
the
good
Spaniards
.
Then
replyed
the
other
,
Let
me
go
to
Hell
that
I
may
not
come
where
they
are
.
It
happened
once
that
the
Citizens
of
a
very
fair
City
distant
about
twelve
miles
from
the
place
where
we
were
,
came
forth
of
the
City
to
do
us
honour
,
and
to
submit
themselves
to
the
King
of
Castile
,
but
they
being
returned
home
,
the
Governour
of
the
Spaniards
about
the
middle
of
the
night
as
they
were
sleeping
in
their
bed
,
and
least
suspecting
any
such
thing
,
sent
a
company
who
came
suddenly
upon
them
,
and
set
fire
upon
their
houses
,
burning
up
both
men
,
women
and
children
,
here
some
they
murthered
,
others
whom
they
spared
,
they
tormented
to
make
them
tell
where
they
had
hid
their
Gold
,
after
which
they
made
them
their
slaves
,
having
first
marked
them
in
the
body
:
and
immediately
as
soon
as
the
fire
was
spent
,
they
ran
to
finde
out
the
Gold
.
At
that
time
the
Spaniards
got
above
ten
hundred
thousand
Crowns
of
Gold
,
out
of
which
the
King
scarce
had
three
hundred
thousand
sent
him
;
there
were
slain
in
this
place
eight
hundred
thousand
people
;
and
those
other
Tyrants
that
came
afterwards
,
emptied
the
Island
of
those
that
remained
.
Among
all
the
notorious
enormities
committed
by
the
foresaid
Governour
,
there
is
one
not
to
be
omitted
:
a
certain
noble
Indian
presenting
him
,
perhaps
more
for
fear
then
love
,
a
present
of
above
nine
thousand
Crowns
,
the
Spaniards
not
content
with
this
,
tied
him
to
a
stake
,
and
stretching
out
his
Legs
,
put
fire
to
them
,
requiring
a
greater
sum
of
Gold
,
who
not
able
to
endure
the
torment
sent
home
for
three
thousand
more
;
notwithstanding
the
Spaniards
with
a
fresh
rage
began
to
torment
him
again
,
but
seeing
that
he
was
able
to
give
them
no
more
,
they
kept
him
so
long
over
the
fire
till
his
marrow
dropt
from
the
soles
of
his
feet
,
whereof
he
died
.
These
were
the
torments
wherewith
they
murthered
not
only
the
common
People
,
but
the
Peers
and
Lords
of
those
Nations
.
Sometimes
it
would
happen
,
that
a
Band
of
Spaniards
ranging
abroad
would
light
upon
a
mountain
where
the
Indians
were
fled
for
protection
from
their
cruelty
,
where
they
immediately
fell
upon
the
Indians
,
killing
the
Men
,
and
taking
the
Women
and
Virgins
captive
;
&
when
a
great
company
of
the
Indians
pursued
them
with
weapons
for
the
recovery
of
their
Wives
and
Children
,
they
resolving
not
to
let
go
their
prey
,
when
the
Indians
came
near
them
,
immediately
with
the
points
of
their
swords
ran
the
poor
Women
and
Children
through
the
bodies
.
Upon
which
the
wretched
Indians
beating
their
brests
for
grief
would
now
and
then
burst
forth
in
these
words
,
O
perverse
men
,
O
cruel
Spaniards
,
What
will
ye
kill
helplesse
women
?
There
was
the
house
of
a
Noble
man
distant
from
Panama
above
15.
miles
;
he
was
by
name
called
Paris
,
and
he
was
very
wealthy
in
Gold
;
to
him
the
Spaniards
came
,
and
by
him
they
were
entertained
like
Brothers
,
he
giving
to
the
Captain
,
as
a
Present
,
fifteen
thousand
Crowns
;
who
by
that
perceiving
that
he
must
of
necessity
have
a
very
great
treasure
,
feigned
a
departure
,
but
about
the
middle
of
the
night
returning
again
entred
the
City
,
set
it
on
fire
,
sacrificing
the
poor
people
to
the
flames
.
Hence
they
took
away
about
fifty
or
sixty
thousand
Crowns
▪
The
Noble
man
escaping
,
gathered
together
what
force
he
could
and
made
after
the
Spaniards
,
who
were
gone
away
with
no
lesse
then
a
hundred
and
forty
thousand
Crowns
of
his
own
Treasure
;
when
he
had
overtaken
them
,
he
fell
upon
them
,
and
having
slain
above
fifty
of
the
Spaniards
,
he
recovered
his
Gold
again
.
The
rest
saved
themselves
by
flight
.
But
not
long
after
the
Spaniards
returned
with
greater
force
upon
the
Noble
man
and
having
routed
him
,
made
slaves
of
all
his
people
.
Of
the
Province
of
Nicaraqua
.
IN
the
year
1522.
the
foresaid
Governour
went
to
subdue
the
Province
of
Nicaraqua
.
There
is
no
man
that
can
sufficiently
expresse
the
fertility
of
this
Island
,
the
temperateness
of
the
air
,
or
the
multitude
of
the
people
that
did
inhabit
it
.
There
was
a
vast
number
of
people
in
this
Province
,
for
it
contained
divers
cities
above
four
mile
in
length
:
and
for
plenty
of
fruits
(
which
was
the
cause
that
it
was
so
extreamly
well
habited
)
without
compare
.
This
people
because
their
Countrey
was
all
plain
and
level
,
had
not
the
shelter
of
the
Mountains
,
neither
could
they
be
easily
perswaded
to
leave
it
,
so
pleasant
was
their
habitation
.
And
therefore
they
endured
far
the
greater
misery
,
and
persecution
,
and
underwent
a
more
unsufferable
slavery
,
being
the
lesse
able
to
bear
it
,
by
how
much
they
were
of
a
milde
and
gentle
nature
.
This
Tyrant
vex'd
and
tormented
these
poor
creatures
with
so
many
continual
injuries
,
slaughters
,
captivities
and
cruelties
,
that
no
tongue
is
able
to
expresse
them
.
Into
this
territory
he
sent
above
fifty
horse
,
who
totally
extirpated
the
people
of
this
Province
by
the
Sword
,
sparing
no
age
nor
sex
,
not
for
any
wrong
they
did
them
,
but
sometimes
it
came
not
so
speedily
when
they
called
as
they
expected
,
or
if
they
brought
not
such
quantities
of
corn
as
they
imposed
,
or
if
they
did
not
bring
a
sufficient
quantity
of
Indians
to
their
service
:
for
the
Countrey
being
in
a
plain
there
was
no
avoiding
the
fury
of
the
Horsemen
.
He
commanded
these
Spaniards
to
go
pillage
and
depopulate
other
Countreys
,
permitting
to
these
Robbers
,
and
Hangmen
,
to
bring
away
and
enslave
what
number
of
these
poor
people
they
pleased
:
whom
they
laded
with
chains
that
weighed
above
sixty
or
fifty
pound
,
that
they
might
not
have
the
opportunity
of
escaping
,
so
that
it
seldome
hapned
that
above
four
in
four
thousand
returned
home
;
and
if
either
through
the
weight
of
their
chains
,
or
for
hunger
or
thirst
they
did
chance
to
faint
by
the
way
,
because
they
would
not
hinder
their
journey
,
they
cut
off
their
heads
immediately
,
throwing
the
head
in
one
place
and
the
body
in
another
.
And
the
poor
captive
Indians
when
they
saw
the
Spaniards
preparing
for
such
journeys
,
at
their
departure
would
weep
and
fall
into
these
kinde
of
sad
expressions
,
These
are
the
journeys
that
we
have
often
gone
,
to
serve
the
Christians
,
and
then
we
could
return
home
again
to
visit
our
Wives
and
Children
,
but
now
all
hope
is
cut
off
from
us
,
and
we
must
never
see
them
more
.
It
happened
also
,
by
reason
that
it
came
into
the
Governors
minde
to
change
the
Indians
from
one
Master
to
another
,
pretending
to
take
away
force
from
some
that
he
saw
began
to
envie
him
,
that
there
was
no
seed
time
nor
harvest
for
a
whole
year
;
now
rather
then
the
Spaniards
would
want
,
they
took
it
from
the
Indians
,
by
which
means
there
perished
no
lesse
then
thirty
thousand
people
;
which
caused
one
woman
for
hunger
to
eat
her
own
childe
.
And
because
these
Cities
and
other
places
were
such
pleasant
abodes
,
therefore
the
Spaniards
took
up
their
habitations
in
these
places
,
dividing
the
possessions
among
themselves
;
and
as
for
the
Indians
,
both
old
and
young
they
lived
in
the
houses
of
the
Spaniards
,
drudging
day
&
night
in
a
perpetual
captivity
,
who
spared
not
the
smallest
children
,
but
impos'd
on
them
burdens
as
much
as
they
were
able
to
bear
,
and
sometimes
more
;
&
by
this
means
allowing
them
neither
houses
nor
any
thing
else
proper
to
themselves
,
they
destroyed
them
daily
,
and
do
daily
destroy
them
:
so
that
they
exceeded
the
cruelties
which
they
had
committed
in
Hispaniola
.
They
hastned
also
the
death
of
many
of
these
poor
people
,
by
forcing
them
to
carry
timber
and
planks
for
shipping
to
the
port
that
was
distant
about
thirty
miles
from
this
place
;
compelling
them
also
to
fetch
honey
and
wax
from
the
Mountains
,
where
they
were
many
times
devoured
by
the
Tygres
.
Neither
were
they
ashamed
to
lade
and
burthen
Women
with
childe
,
as
if
they
had
been
only
beasts
for
carriage
.
But
there
was
no
greater
plague
that
depopulated
this
Countrey
,
then
a
liberty
granted
by
the
Governour
to
the
Spaniards
,
for
the
requiring
of
slaves
and
captives
from
the
Nobles
and
potent
men
of
the
Kingdome
;
who
as
often
as
the
Spaniards
obtained
leave
to
demand
them
,
which
was
every
four
or
five
moneths
,
and
sometimes
oftner
,
gave
them
constantly
fifty
servants
,
whom
the
Spaniards
still
threatned
,
that
if
they
would
not
be
obedient
,
they
would
either
burn
them
alive
,
or
throw
them
to
the
dogs
.
Now
because
the
Indians
have
but
few
servants
,
for
it
is
a
very
great
matter
to
see
above
three
servants
in
that
place
waiting
upon
a
Noble
man
;
therefore
the
Nobility
were
fain
to
come
to
their
subjects
,
from
whom
first
they
took
all
the
Orphans
,
then
coming
to
those
that
had
many
children
,
from
them
that
had
two
they
took
one
,
and
from
those
who
had
three
they
demanded
two
;
and
thus
they
were
fain
to
make
up
the
Number
which
the
threatning
Tyrant
required
,
while
the
poor
people
wept
and
deplor'd
the
sad
misfortune
of
their
Children
,
over
whom
they
are
very
tender
.
Which
being
done
for
a
daily
continuance
,
in
ten
or
twelve
years
they
made
a
clean
riddance
of
the
inhabitants
out
of
this
place
.
For
every
foot
there
came
five
or
six
ships
which
returned
full
of
Indians
into
the
Regions
of
Panama
and
Peru
,
where
they
were
sold
,
and
ended
their
daies
in
captivity
.
For
experience
hath
taught
us
this
,
that
when
ever
the
Indians
are
removed
from
their
accustomed
habitations
into
other
climates
,
they
quickly
die
;
the
Spaniards
neither
affording
them
sufficient
food
,
nor
in
times
of
sicknesse
diminishing
their
labour
,
for
which
end
they
were
only
bought
.
And
thus
the
number
of
people
hurried
from
the
enjoyment
of
their
freedome
into
a
sad
and
laborious
captivity
,
amounted
to
five
hundred
thousand
souls
,
of
which
above
fifty
or
sixty
thousand
are
already
perished
,
and
more
daily
perish
.
All
these
Massacres
were
committed
within
the
space
of
fourteen
years
.
There
may
be
now
remaining
in
the
Province
of
Nicaraqua
perhaps
some
four
or
five
thousand
men
,
though
they
daily
diminish
through
the
immoderate
oppressions
of
the
Spaniards
.
Notwithstanding
in
former
time
for
number
of
people
,
it
was
the
most
flourishing
place
in
the
whole
world
.
Of
New
Spain
.
IN
the
year
1517.
New
Spain
was
discovered
;
after
the
discovery
of
which
they
did
nothing
first
or
second
,
but
immediately
sell
to
their
old
practises
of
cruelty
and
slaughter
:
for
in
the
following
year
the
Spaniards
(
who
call
themselves
Christians
)
went
thither
to
rob
and
kill
;
though
they
gave
out
that
they
went
to
people
the
Countrey
.
From
that
year
unto
this
present
year
1542.
the
violence
,
injustice
and
tyrannies
of
the
Spaniards
came
to
their
full
height
;
and
now
quite
forgetting
their
humane
natures
,
they
laid
aside
all
fear
of
God
or
of
their
King
.
For
the
slaughters
,
massacres
,
cruelties
,
devastations
of
Countreys
,
destructions
of
Cities
,
violences
,
tyrannies
,
and
rapines
of
the
Spaniards
,
which
they
did
commit
in
these
so
many
several
and
so
large
Kingdomes
,
are
so
numberlesse
,
and
strike
the
minde
with
such
a
horror
,
that
those
which
we
have
before
related
,
are
nothing
in
respect
of
these
which
we
are
to
relate
,
being
all
perpetrated
in
the
year
1518.
and
continued
to
this
very
moneth
in
a
most
sad
and
dreadfull
manner
;
so
that
what
we
said
before
holds
very
true
,
that
the
Spaniards
still
went
on
from
bad
to
worse
,
themselves
striving
to
exceed
themselves
in
wickednesse
.
And
thus
from
the
first
entry
of
the
Spaniards
into
New
Spain
,
which
happened
upon
the
tenth
day
of
the
moneth
of
Aprill
,
continuing
from
the
eighteenth
year
untill
the
thirtieth
,
in
which
space
of
time
are
contained
twelve
years
compleat
,
there
hath
been
no
end
of
the
bloudy
massacres
and
cruel
slaughters
of
the
Spaniards
,
perpetrated
in
the
continent
of
Mexico
and
the
parts
adjoyning
,
which
contained
four
or
five
large
Kingdomes
,
that
neither
for
compasse
nor
fertility
gave
place
to
Spain
.
All
this
region
was
more
populous
then
either
Toledo
,
Sevill
,
Valadolid
,
Augusta
Caesarea
,
or
Faventia
;
nay
I
may
affirm
that
there
is
not
at
this
present
,
neither
was
there
when
those
places
were
at
the
highest
of
their
flourishing
estate
,
so
many
people
as
in
those
parts
,
which
take
up
the
space
of
above
a
thousand
and
eight
hundred
miles
.
In
these
ten
or
twelve
years
,
what
with
Men
,
Women
,
Youths
,
and
Children
,
above
four
millions
were
by
the
Spaniards
consumed
part
by
fire
,
part
by
the
sword
in
these
destructive
wars
;
wars
more
unjust
and
more
condemn'd
both
by
the
Law
of
God
and
men
,
then
any
invasion
of
the
Turk
against
the
Catholique
Religion
.
Neither
do
we
now
reckon
those
that
died
under
the
intolerable
yoke
and
burdens
of
their
captivity
.
There
is
no
language
,
no
art
or
humane
science
,
that
can
avail
to
recite
the
abominable
crimes
and
bloudy
actions
committed
by
these
enemies
not
only
of
Common-wealths
,
but
of
all
humane
societies
;
neither
can
any
diligence
,
or
time
of
writing
sufficiently
aggravate
the
circumstances
of
these
detestable
deeds
.
Notwithstanding
something
I
shall
say
of
every
one
of
them
;
though
I
do
seriously
protest
,
that
I
connot
rehearse
one
thing
of
a
thousand
in
respect
of
all
that
were
done
.
Of
New
Spain
in
particular
.
AMong
other
grand
murthers
of
theirs
,
they
committed
one
more
notorious
in
the
City
Cholula
,
which
did
contain
above
thirty
thousand
families
.
All
the
potent
men
of
that
Region
,
with
the
Priests
who
brought
along
with
them
their
chief
Priest
also
,
came
to
meet
the
Spaniards
;
and
that
their
reception
and
entertainment
might
be
the
more
honourable
,
they
agreed
to
entertain
the
Spaniards
in
the
houses
of
the
greatest
Noble
men
;
but
here
the
Spaniards
consulted
how
to
begin
their
massacres
,
or
as
they
call'd
them
,
chastisements
of
the
people
,
that
they
might
keep
in
awe
every
corner
of
the
Countrey
with
the
terror
of
their
cruelties
.
For
this
was
their
common
custome
,
that
they
no
sooner
had
set
sooting
in
any
place
,
but
they
committed
immediately
some
notorious
violence
upon
the
people
,
that
the
rest
might
stand
in
the
greater
fear
of
them
.
They
sent
therefore
to
the
supreme
Lord
of
the
City
,
as
also
to
all
the
other
Lords
and
Governours
,
that
they
should
give
them
a
meeting
,
but
they
were
no
sooner
come
to
parley
,
but
they
were
all
immediately
laid
hold
on
,
leaving
none
to
carry
back
these
bad
tidings
to
the
rest
;
first
they
demanded
of
them
six
thousand
Indians
,
to
carry
the
Luggage
which
they
had
with
them
,
which
when
they
were
brought
together
they
shut
up
in
their
houses
.
It
was
a
sad
spectacle
to
behold
this
poor
people
preparing
themselves
to
carry
those
burthens
.
They
came
naked
,
covering
only
their
secret
parts
,
and
at
their
shoulders
hung
a
little
Net
wherein
they
kept
their
food
;
and
thus
while
they
stooped
under
their
burthens
,
they
lay
open
to
all
the
cuts
and
blowes
of
the
Spanish
weapons
.
Now
being
in
this
manner
gathered
together
in
a
great
and
wide
place
,
part
of
the
Spaniards
all
in
armes
,
stood
at
the
door
to
keep
the
rest
out
,
while
others
with
Swords
and
Launces
kill'd
the
innocent
Lambs
,
so
that
not
one
escaped
.
After
three
or
four
daies
were
expired
,
some
that
had
hid
themselves
among
the
dead
bodies
all
over
besmeered
with
bloud
,
came
with
all
submission
imploring
mercy
and
compassion
from
them
;
but
they
not
at
all
regarding
their
tears
,
nor
moved
with
their
lamentations
,
immediately
hew'd
them
to
pieces
.
All
the
Lords
and
Noble
men
,
were
kept
a
while
in
chains
,
and
afterward
at
the
Commandement
of
the
Spanish
Captain
,
tied
to
stakes
and
burnt
to
death
.
But
the
King
of
the
whole
Countrey
escaped
,
with
about
thirty
or
forty
men
,
betaking
himself
to
a
Temple
which
was
like
a
Castle
,
and
in
their
language
called
Quu
;
there
defending
himself
a
good
part
of
the
day
;
but
the
Spaniards
out
of
whose
hand
few
of
them
,
especially
the
souldiery
escap'd
,
setting
the
Temple
on
fire
,
burnt
them
all
that
were
within
alive
,
who
as
they
were
dying
,
brake
forth
into
these
lamentations
:
O
wicked
men
,
how
have
we
injured
you
,
that
you
should
thus
torment
us
?
Away
,
away
to
Mexico
,
where
our
chief
Lord
Montenchuma
will
revenge
our
quarrel
.
This
is
also
reported
that
while
the
Spaniards
were
busily
acting
this
bloudy
Tragedy
,
killing
and
destroying
above
six
thousand
innocent
creatures
,
their
chief
Captain
in
sport
sung
these
verses
:
One
flame
the
Roman
'
City
now
destroyes
,
And
shrieks
of
people
made
a
dismal
noyse
,
While
Nero
sung
,
and
moved
with
delight
,
From
Tarpey
Hill
beheld
the
wofull
sight
.
Another
butchery
was
by
them
committed
in
the
City
of
Tepeaca
,
which
was
a
much
larger
City
then
the
former
.
Here
they
put
to
the
sword
an
infinite
number
of
people
,
with
many
additions
of
cruelty
.
Departing
from
Cholula
they
came
to
Mexico
,
the
King
whereof
Montenchuma
sent
the
Peers
and
Nobles
of
this
Realm
with
innumerable
presents
to
meet
them
,
who
all
the
way
testified
by
several
sports
and
solemnities
,
the
joy
which
they
had
for
their
arrivall
;
When
they
approached
neer
the
wal
of
the
City
,
the
Kings
Brother
came
forth
with
many
Noble
men
to
meet
him
,
who
brought
many
gifts
of
Gold
and
Silver
,
to
present
them
with
.
Coming
to
the
entry
of
the
City
,
there
stood
the
King
himself
with
all
his
attendants
,
who
being
carried
in
a
golden
Litter
accompanied
them
to
the
Palace
which
was
prepared
for
them
.
But
that
very
day
,
as
was
told
me
by
some
that
were
there
,
they
seised
upon
the
King
,
little
suspecting
any
such
matter
,
setting
a
guard
upon
his
person
of
above
eighty
Souldiers
:
after
that
they
put
him
in
chains
.
But
here
passing
by
many
things
which
might
be
said
;
I
will
relate
one
thing
worthy
observation
.
The
Governor
being
call'd
away
to
quell
one
of
his
Captains
that
had
taken
armes
against
him
,
and
having
left
Montenchuma
with
a
guard
of
above
a
hundred
,
it
came
into
the
mindes
of
the
Spaniards
to
do
something
which
might
render
them
dreadful
and
terrible
to
the
Indians
;
which
was
a
policy
,
as
I
said
before
,
they
did
often
use
.
In
the
mean
while
all
the
Nobility
and
commonalty
of
the
City
minded
nothing
else
but
to
exhilarate
the
minde
of
their
captive
King
with
several
varieties
of
sports
and
recreations
.
Among
which
there
was
none
that
they
used
more
then
dancings
and
revellings
,
which
they
performed
all
night
long
in
the
streets
.
These
exercises
they
in
their
language
call'd
Mirotes
,
but
the
Islanders
Areytos
.
To
these
recreations
they
bring
together
all
their
wealth
and
richest
garments
,
and
what
ever
they
do
esteem
precious
;
using
them
as
the
greatest
testimonies
of
gladnesse
.
The
Nobles
also
and
Princes
of
the
Royal
bloud
every
one
according
to
their
degree
,
were
busie
in
these
sports
in
those
places
which
were
nearest
the
houses
where
the
King
was
detained
captive
.
Not
far
from
the
Palace
there
were
above
two
thousand
youths
,
being
all
the
children
of
the
Nobility
,
and
indeed
the
flower
of
the
Nobility
which
were
in
Mantenchuma's
Kingdome
.
To
these
came
the
Captain
of
the
Spaniards
with
a
small
party
of
Souldiers
,
sending
other
Troops
to
other
parts
of
the
City
,
as
if
they
only
came
to
be
spectators
.
But
the
Captain
had
given
command
that
at
a
certain
hour
they
should
fall
upon
them
;
and
he
himself
being
about
to
lead
the
way
,
cry'd
out
,
St.
Iago
,
let
us
rush
in
upon
them
.
The
word
being
thus
given
,
the
Souldiees
all
fell
on
,
and
with
their
swords
began
to
hack
and
hew
those
delicate
bodies
,
spilling
that
generous
and
noble
bloud
with
such
an
unheard
of
malice
,
that
they
left
not
one
alive
.
And
doing
thus
to
others
in
other
places
,
there
fell
a
dismal
fear
and
amazement
upon
the
whole
Countrey
.
Nor
will
these
poor
creatures
doubtlesse
ever
forget
as
long
as
the
world
stands
,
to
lament
and
bewail
in
their
solemnities
the
sad
calamity
and
ruine
of
the
whole
seminary
of
their
Nobility
,
of
which
they
were
wont
so
much
to
boast
.
The
Indians
beholding
this
unheard
of
cruelty
and
injustice
committed
upon
such
a
number
of
innocent
souls
,
having
with
long
patience
endured
the
captivity
of
their
King
,
who
had
charg'd
them
to
be
quiet
,
now
ran
all
to
their
arms
,
and
falling
upon
the
Spaniards
,
wounded
many
,
the
rest
narrowly
escaping
:
at
length
the
Spaniards
putting
a
Dagger
to
the
brest
of
the
King
Montencuma
threatned
to
kill
him
unlesse
he
would
look
through
the
window
and
command
his
subjects
to
lay
down
their
armes
.
But
the
Indians
at
that
time
contemning
the
commands
of
their
King
,
chose
them
a
Captain
whom
they
made
chief
Commander
of
all
their
Forces
.
By
this
time
the
forementioned
Governour
was
returned
from
subduing
his
enemy
,
bringing
with
him
a
greater
number
of
Spaniards
then
he
carryed
away
with
him
.
Whereupon
the
Indians
desisted
from
doing
any
thing
more
untill
he
was
entred
into
the
City
.
But
then
gathering
together
very
great
Forces
,
they
fought
so
vigorously
,
that
the
Spaniards
despairing
of
victory
resolved
to
retreat
in
a
tempestuous
night
and
to
leave
the
City
.
Which
being
known
to
the
Indians
,
they
cut
off
abundance
of
them
upon
the
bridges
of
the
Lakes
:
neitheir
can
any
man
deny
but
that
they
did
it
justly
,
for
the
reasons
above
rehearsed
.
Afterwards
the
Spaniards
having
recollected
more
forces
,
there
followed
that
great
contention
in
the
City
,
wherein
they
committed
so
many
several
butcheries
upon
the
Indians
,
by
killing
and
burning
both
the
Commonalty
and
the
Nobility
in
a
most
barbarous
manner
.
Having
committed
so
many
detestable
slaughters
upon
the
Indians
in
Mexico
,
and
other
places
distant
ten
,
fifteen
and
twenty
miles
from
thence
,
this
tyrannical
plague
proceeded
to
infest
and
depopulate
the
City
of
Panuco
.
There
was
a
wonderful
frequency
of
people
in
that
Countrey
,
neither
were
the
slaughters
,
that
were
there
committed
,
lesse
remarkable
.
In
the
like
manner
they
laid
waste
the
Provinces
of
Tatepeca
,
Ipilcingonium
,
and
Columa
,
every
one
of
which
is
of
as
large
a
compasse
as
the
Kingdomes
of
Legiona
and
Castile
.
It
is
a
very
hard
thing
,
if
not
altogether
impossible
,
to
recite
all
the
murthers
and
cruelties
there
committed
;
besides
that
,
it
would
cloy
the
reader
.
Here
we
must
observe
,
that
they
entred
into
these
Kingdomes
and
territories
,
(
which
for
the
abundance
of
people
ought
to
have
been
the
joy
of
all
true
Christians
)
upon
no
pretence
,
but
as
they
said
to
reduce
them
to
slavery
.
For
at
their
first
entrance
they
commanded
them
to
swear
fealty
and
obedience
to
the
King
of
Spain
,
&
those
that
would
not
come
in
and
submit
themselves
to
the
will
of
such
unjust
and
cruel
men
,
they
proclaimed
rebels
,
and
and
accus'd
them
of
that
crime
to
the
King
.
The
blindnesse
of
the
chief
Governours
of
the
Indies
not
permitting
them
to
discern
,
that
no
man
can
be
called
a
Rebell
who
is
not
before
a
Subject
.
This
cruel
Tyrant
leaning
upon
this
pretence
,
sent
two
other
Captains
excelling
himself
in
fury
,
and
impiety
to
Guatimala
the
most
fertile
and
most
flourishing
Kingdome
both
for
men
and
fruit
of
any
that
were
situated
southward
.
They
had
also
received
commands
to
visit
the
Kingdomes
of
Naco
,
Honduras
,
and
Guaimara
looking
toward
the
north
,
and
being
distant
from
Mexico
above
three
hundred
miles
;
the
one
was
sent
by
land
,
the
other
by
sea
,
being
both
of
them
well
furnished
with
men
and
ammunition
for
Horse
and
Foot
.
And
this
I
dare
affirm
,
that
the
enormities
committed
by
these
two
Captains
,
and
by
him
especially
that
was
sent
to
Guatimala
(
for
the
other
dyed
an
evill
death
in
good
time
)
are
enough
to
fill
a
particular
volume
,
so
many
were
the
slaughters
,
violences
,
injuries
,
butcheries
,
and
beastly
desolations
which
they
perpetrated
,
as
do
not
only
amaze
the
present
,
but
must
of
necessity
strike
a
horror
into
future
ages
:
for
in
this
place
their
abominations
and
devastations
were
more
fatal
then
in
any
place
before
.
As
for
him
that
went
by
sea
,
he
vex'd
all
the
shore
with
his
incursions
and
cruelties
,
to
whom
there
came
certain
out
of
the
Kingdome
of
Yucatan
,
which
lies
in
the
way
to
the
Kingdomes
of
Naco
,
and
Naymura
,
whither
he
was
then
marching
,
and
brought
him
many
presents
,
yet
he
was
no
sooner
come
into
the
Countrey
,
but
he
sent
the
souldiers
to
depopulate
and
waste
the
same
,
who
ceased
not
to
commit
many
abominable
outrages
.
Among
the
rest
,
a
certain
seditious
rebel
entring
into
a
region
bordering
upon
Guatemala
,
burnt
up
their
City
,
killing
the
Inhabitants
,
and
laying
waste
all
the
Countrey
,
which
he
did
on
purpose
,
that
if
he
should
be
pursued
by
his
enemies
,
they
might
be
liable
to
the
revenge
of
the
Indians
as
they
passed
along
;
which
happened
accordingly
,
for
there
the
chief
Commander
from
whose
power
the
foresaid
Captain
had
rebell'd
,
was
slain
;
but
he
was
succeeded
by
many
other
fell
tyrants
,
who
with
their
wonted
cruelties
and
captivity
destroyed
the
people
,
selling
them
to
those
that
brought
garments
and
other
provision
,
and
by
that
kinde
of
servitude
,
which
they
practised
from
the
year
1524.
to
the
year
1535.
they
depopulated
and
made
desert
the
provinces
of
Naco
and
Honduras
,
which
seemed
to
be
the
Elysium
and
Paradise
of
the
world
in
every
respect
.
And
I
have
lately
seen
them
so
destroyed
,
that
it
would
move
the
most
stony
heart
to
compassion
.
In
these
eleven
years
there
prrished
in
this
Countrey
above
two
millions
,
scarce
two
thousand
now
remaining
,
who
daily
diminish
through
the
hardnesse
of
their
servitude
.
But
as
for
that
abominable
tyrant
that
exceeded
all
that
were
before
in
tyranny
,
and
is
equall
to
all
that
remains
behinde
,
let
us
now
finde
him
out
in
Guatimala
.
He
going
through
the
Provinces
adjoyning
to
Mexico
toward
Guatimala
,
which
are
above
four
hundred
miles
in
length
,
minded
nothing
else
all
the
way
he
went
,
but
slaughters
,
rapines
,
burnings
,
depopulations
,
compelling
all
upon
the
foresaid
pretence
to
submit
themselves
to
their
cruelties
,
in
the
name
of
the
King
of
Spain
,
whom
they
had
never
seen
nor
heard
of
,
and
whom
they
could
not
but
think
more
unjust
and
cruel
then
his
Ministers
and
Officers
,
yet
giving
them
no
time
to
deliberate
,
they
wasted
all
before
them
with
fire
and
sword
.
Of
the
Kingdome
and
Province
of
Guatimala
.
AT
their
first
entrance
into
this
Kingdome
they
committed
a
very
great
outrage
.
But
for
all
that
their
chief
Lord
and
Governor
carried
in
a
Litter
came
forth
to
meet
him
with
Drums
and
Trumpets
,
and
great
joy
;
attended
by
many
of
the
Nobles
of
the
City
of
Vtlacan
the
greatest
Mart
Town
of
that
Kingdome
,
where
they
gave
him
provisions
in
abundance
,
with
all
that
he
could
desire
.
That
night
the
Spaniards
lodg'd
without
the
City
,
not
thinking
themselves
safe
in
a
Town
so
well
fortified
as
that
was
.
The
next
day
he
called
to
him
the
chief
Lord
with
a
great
number
of
the
Nobles
,
demanding
of
them
a
very
great
quantity
of
Gold
.
They
returning
him
answer
,
that
they
could
not
satisfie
his
request
by
reason
that
their
Countrey
afforded
not
Gold
,
were
immediately
by
his
command
,
without
any
cause
or
form
of
proceeding
,
all
burnt
alive
.
The
rest
of
the
Nobles
of
these
Provinces
,
seeing
that
all
the
chiefest
of
them
,
who
had
the
power
and
government
of
the
Kingdome
in
their
hands
,
were
for
no
cause
put
to
death
,
but
because
they
were
not
able
to
give
them
gold
,
fled
to
the
mountains
for
safety
,
charging
their
subjects
to
submit
themselves
to
the
Spaniards
,
but
not
to
tell
them
where
their
sculking
places
were
,
nor
to
give
them
notice
of
their
flight
.
Whereupon
an
infinite
number
of
the
Indians
came
to
the
Spaniards
requesting
that
they
might
be
their
subjects
,
and
that
they
might
serve
them
.
The
Captain
made
answer
,
that
he
would
not
receive
them
,
and
that
moreover
he
would
kill
them
all
unlesse
they
would
declare
whither
their
Lords
were
fled
:
the
Indians
replyed
,
That
they
knew
nothing
of
it
,
but
their
Wives
and
Children
they
said
were
ready
to
serve
them
,
adding
,
that
they
were
at
home
in
their
houses
,
whither
they
might
goe
,
and
either
kill
them
or
use
them
as
they
pleas'd
;
which
offers
they
made
to
them
again
and
again
.
But
strange
to
tell
,
the
Spaniards
demanded
their
Cities
and
Towns
,
killing
these
poor
creatures
,
who
as
they
thought
were
secure
at
their
work
.
They
came
to
a
very
large
Town
,
which
being
confident
of
their
own
innocence
,
thought
themselves
safer
then
the
rest
;
but
in
two
hours
space
they
brought
such
a
desolation
upon
it
,
killing
all
ages
and
sexes
,
that
there
was
not
a
person
left
alive
,
but
what
saved
themselves
by
flight
.
The
Indians
perceiving
that
with
all
their
humility
,
their
patience
,
and
their
presents
,
that
they
were
not
able
to
asswage
the
fury
of
these
inhumane
creatures
,
and
that
they
were
daily
killed
up
like
dogs
,
began
to
think
of
taking
armes
;
for
they
thought
it
better
,
since
an
evill
death
could
not
be
avoided
,
rather
to
die
fighting
and
taking
revenge
upon
their
enemies
,
then
to
be
killed
like
beasts
by
them
.
But
when
they
saw
their
want
of
armes
,
their
feeblenesse
,
their
nakednesse
,
and
that
they
were
utterly
unskilfull
in
the
management
of
horses
,
that
they
might
have
some
way
of
prevailing
upon
their
enemies
,
it
came
in
their
minds
to
dig
certain
ditches
in
the
waies
,
that
so
the
horses
as
they
went
along
might
fall
into
them
:
at
the
bottome
of
these
pits
they
had
driven
in
stakes
sharpned
at
the
top
,
and
they
had
covered
them
over
with
clods
of
earth
that
they
might
not
be
discovered
;
twice
or
thrice
the
Spaniards
fell
into
these
ditches
,
but
afterwards
by
their
care
they
easily
avoided
them
.
And
therefore
they
made
a
Law
among
themselves
,
that
all
the
Indians
which
they
took
,
of
what
ever
sex
or
degree
,
should
be
thrown
into
those
pits
which
they
had
made
:
Into
these
pits
they
threw
women
big
with
childe
,
and
all
the
aged
persons
that
they
could
light
upon
,
till
the
pit
was
full
.
It
was
a
sad
sight
to
behold
women
with
child
goar'd
through
the
body
with
these
stakes
;
while
others
that
lay
uppermost
were
killed
with
swords
and
launces
;
those
that
would
not
in
were
cast
to
their
dogs
.
They
burnt
a
very
potent
Peer
of
the
Nation
in
a
great
fire
,
saying
that
he
was
much
honoured
with
that
kinde
of
death
.
Among
other
abominations
committed
by
this
Captain
and
his
followers
,
who
were
not
at
all
more
gentle
then
their
leader
,
this
was
one
more
memorable
then
the
rest
.
Into
the
Province
of
Cuzcatan
,
where
the
City
of
our
Saviour
is
situated
,
being
a
Countrey
,
which
together
with
the
neighbouring
sea
coast
is
extended
about
forty
or
fifty
miles
in
length
;
and
also
into
the
City
of
Cuzcatan
it self
,
which
is
the
Metropolis
of
the
whole
Countrey
,
he
was
received
with
very
great
joy
,
the
Indians
expecting
his
coming
,
laden
with
a
present
of
above
thirty
thousand
Turkies
and
other
things
necessary
for
their
refreshment
.
But
he
having
received
their
gift
,
commanded
the
Spaniards
every
one
of
them
to
take
as
many
Indians
as
they
pleased
,
and
to
keep
them
for
service
as
long
as
they
should
stay
there
.
Whereupon
every
one
took
a
hundred
lesse
or
more
,
according
as
his
occasions
required
.
And
as
for
the
poor
Captives
they
served
them
with
so
much
zeal
and
affection
,
that
they
could
require
nothing
more
then
adoration
it self
.
After
this
the
Captain
required
of
the
people
a
great
quantity
of
Gold
,
who
returned
him
answer
,
that
they
would
give
him
all
the
Gold
they
had
.
Whereupon
the
Indians
brought
together
a
great
company
of
spears
which
were
guilt
with
Orichalcum
,
so
that
they
seemed
to
be
gold
;
but
the
Captain
causing
them
to
be
touched
,
and
not
finding
them
to
be
gold
,
spake
thus
to
the
people
,
All
curses
light
upon
such
a
Region
as
this
,
wherein
there
is
no
Gold
;
and
then
commanded
all
those
that
had
taken
servants
,
to
keep
them
in
chains
,
and
to
mark
them
with
the
mark
of
servitude
,
which
was
immediately
done
,
the
Kings
mark
being
burnt
into
their
flesh
;
which
I
saw
also
done
to
the
son
of
the
chiefest
man
in
all
the
City
.
Those
Indians
that
escaped
with
the
rest
of
the
inhabitants
of
the
Countrey
,
gathered
themselves
together
,
resolving
to
hazard
a
war
with
the
Spaniards
,
but
alas
with
small
prosperity
,
there
being
an
infinite
number
of
them
slain
.
After
this
they
returned
to
Guatimala
,
where
they
built
a
City
,
which
God
in
his
justice
destroy'd
,
overwhelming
it
,
first
with
earth
,
then
with
stones
of
a
vast
bignesse
,
and
lastly
,
letting
in
upon
it
a
great
deluge
of
waters
.
Now
after
that
they
had
slain
all
that
were
able
to
make
resistance
against
them
,
they
carried
away
the
rest
into
captivity
,
or
forced
them
to
give
away
their
children
as
tribute
due
to
the
Spaniards
,
for
they
use
the
service
of
no
other
creatures
.
And
thus
part
being
sold
into
the
Countreys
of
Peru
,
and
part
destroyed
by
the
sword
,
they
made
a
wildernesse
of
one
of
the
most
happy
and
populous
Countreys
of
those
parts
,
stretching
out
in
length
and
bredth
above
a
hundred
miles
.
This
the
tyrant
himself
confessed
,
writing
that
this
County
was
more
populous
then
the
County
of
Mexico
,
as
indeed
it
was
.
This
man
in
the
space
of
fifteen
years
,
which
was
from
the
year
525.
to
540.
together
with
his
associates
,
massacred
no
lesse
then
five
millions
of
men
,
and
do
daily
destroy
those
that
are
yet
remaining
.
It
was
the
custome
of
this
Tyrant
,
when
he
made
war
upon
any
Town
or
Countrey
,
to
carry
along
with
him
as
many
as
he
could
of
the
subdued
Indians
,
compelling
them
to
make
war
upon
their
Countreymen
,
and
when
he
had
ten
or
twenty
thousand
men
in
his
service
,
because
he
could
not
give
them
provision
,
he
permitted
them
to
eat
the
flesh
of
those
Indians
that
they
had
taken
in
war
:
for
which
cause
he
had
a
kind
of
shambles
in
his
Army
for
the
ordering
and
dressing
of
mans
flesh
,
suffering
Children
to
be
killed
and
broyled
in
his
presence
.
The
men
they
killed
only
for
their
hands
and
feet
,
for
those
they
accounted
dainties
.
Which
being
understood
by
the
neighbours
,
they
were
all
struck
with
astonishment
.
Of
New
Spain
.
As
also
of
Panucon
,
and
Xalisco
.
THese
horrid
murders
and
massacres
being
committed
,
besides
others
that
I
have
omitted
,
in
the
Provinces
of
New
Spain
,
there
came
another
cruel
and
furious
Tyrant
into
the
Provinces
of
Panucon
,
who
having
perpetrated
many
hainous
iniquities
,
and
sent
great
numbers
of
the
Natives
to
be
sold
in
the
Countreys
of
Spain
,
laid
waste
all
this
Kingdome
:
and
once
it
hapned
that
they
used
eight
hundred
of
the
Indians
in
stead
of
a
team
to
draw
their
carriages
,
as
if
they
had
been
meer
beasts
and
irrational
creatures
.
He
was
afterwards
made
President
of
the
City
of
Mexico
,
and
with
him
many
other
his
fellow
tyrants
advanced
to
the
office
of
Auditors
;
which
Offices
they
contaminated
with
so
many
impieties
and
abominations
,
that
it
is
hardly
to
be
imagined
.
And
as
for
this
Countrey
it self
,
they
so
far
destroyed
it
,
that
if
some
of
the
Franciscan
Friers
had
not
strenuously
opposed
him
,
and
that
the
Kings
Councel
had
not
provided
a
sudden
remedy
for
it
,
in
two
years
space
they
had
wholly
depopulated
New
Spain
,
as
they
had
done
in
Hispaniola
.
One
of
the
Associates
of
the
President
that
he
might
enclose
his
Garden
with
a
wall
,
used
the
service
of
eight
thousand
Indians
,
and
because
he
afforded
them
neither
food
,
nor
wages
,
they
all
perished
after
a
most
sad
and
lamentable
manner
.
After
the
first
Captain
,
of
whom
we
spake
before
,
had
put
an
end
to
the
destruction
of
Panucon
;
and
that
there
came
newes
to
him
that
the
Kings
Councell
was
coming
into
these
parts
,
he
went
further
into
the
Countrey
,
that
he
might
exercise
his
cruelties
with
more
liberty
,
and
caused
fifteen
or
twenty
thousand
of
the
Indians
to
follow
and
carry
the
burthens
of
the
Spaniards
,
of
whom
scarce
two
hundred
returned
alive
,
the
rest
being
all
destroyed
;
at
length
they
came
to
the
Province
of
Machuaca
which
is
distant
above
forty
miles
from
Mexico
,
and
is
nothing
at
all
inferior
to
the
other
either
for
plenty
of
provision
,
or
number
of
people
;
the
king
coming
to
meet
him
with
all
shewes
of
respect
and
honour
,
they
put
in
prison
because
he
was
reported
to
be
very
rich
:
which
that
they
might
get
from
him
,
they
thus
tormented
him
;
having
put
his
feet
in
a
kinde
of
stocks
,
and
stretching
out
his
body
,
they
tyed
his
hands
to
a
stake
,
and
then
putting
fire
to
his
feet
,
while
a
boy
was
set
to
baste
them
with
oyle
,
that
they
might
roast
the
better
;
there
stood
another
also
with
dogs
behind
him
,
threatning
to
set
them
upon
him
;
which
if
he
had
done
,
they
would
have
soon
put
an
end
to
his
life
:
and
with
these
torments
they
vexed
him
,
to
make
him
bring
his
treasures
to
light
.
At
length
there
came
a
Franciscan
Frier
who
freed
him
from
his
torments
,
but
not
from
death
,
which
immediately
ensued
.
With
this
kinde
of
torture
they
put
to
death
many
other
of
the
Princes
and
Noble
men
of
the
Countrey
.
About
this
time
a
certain
man
who
came
to
visit
their
purses
rather
then
their
souls
,
knowing
the
Indians
to
be
adorers
of
Idols
,
for
the
Spaniards
had
not
taught
them
better
,
kept
them
captive
till
they
had
delivered
all
their
Images
,
for
they
thought
that
they
had
been
all
of
Gold
,
but
when
they
found
themselves
deceived
,
he
inflicted
upon
them
punishments
as
if
they
had
committed
some
great
offence
,
and
because
he
would
not
utterly
lose
their
hopes
,
caused
them
to
redeem
their
Idols
with
Gold
,
to
adore
them
;
and
thus
did
the
Spaniards
procure
the
worship
of
God
among
the
Indians
.
This
Tyrant
out
of
the
Province
of
Panucon
,
went
to
Methuaca
and
Xalisco
,
which
were
Countreys
fruitful
both
in
men
and
money
,
and
no
small
glory
of
the
Indian
Nation
,
having
Cities
that
were
in
length
above
seven
miles
.
When
he
came
into
these
Countreys
,
the
Indians
,
as
they
were
wont
,
met
him
with
accustomed
signes
of
joy
and
gladnesse
;
but
he
immediately
brake
forth
into
his
wonted
cruelties
,
to
attain
his
usual
scope
,
which
was
the
heaping
up
of
Gold
,
the
only
God
which
they
adore
.
The
Cities
they
burnt
to
the
ground
;
Their
Princes
,
having
first
tormented
them
,
they
carried
away
captive
,
binding
them
in
chains
.
Women
with
childe
,
without
any
consideration
of
their
weaknesse
,
they
oppressed
with
tedious
labours
and
hunger
,
that
they
dy'd
by
the
way
.
And
as
for
their
Children
,
because
they
could
not
carry
them
,
they
were
forc'd
to
throw
them
away
,
by
which
a
number
of
Infants
were
destroyed
.
There
being
a
certain
Christian
who
went
about
to
defile
a
virgin
,
her
mother
interposed
her self
,
and
would
have
taken
the
daughter
from
him
;
the
Spaniard
drawing
forth
his
dagger
,
cut
off
her
hand
,
and
afterwards
slew
the
virgin
,
because
she
would
not
give
consent
to
his
lustful
desire
.
Among
other
things
also
this
was
most
unjust
,
that
they
caused
to
be
marked
with
the
mark
of
slavery
above
four
thousand
five
hundred
of
the
Indians
that
were
all
as
free
born
as
themselves
;
among
which
they
also
caused
to
be
thus
marked
children
of
two
,
three
or
four
years
old
,
though
they
were
all
such
as
came
forth
to
meet
him
with
great
acclamations
of
joy
;
other
things
without
number
I
passe
by
in
silence
.
All
these
above
mentioned
abominations
being
done
,
they
reduced
the
rest
to
a
tyrannicall
subjection
,
for
which
cause
they
thought
that
they
were
only
sent
thither
.
In
which
regions
the
said
Governour
gave
liberty
to
all
the
Spaniards
,
especially
to
his
Stewards
and
Officers
,
to
exercise
what
tortures
they
pleased
upon
the
Indians
to
draw
out
of
them
the
knowledge
where
their
treasure
lay
.
His
Steward
in
times
of
peace
kill'd
many
Indians
,
burning
some
,
and
casting
other
to
his
dogs
,
cutting
off
others
hands
,
legs
,
and
heads
,
that
thereby
their
minds
being
totally
subjected
they
should
never
deny
where
their
Gold
or
treasure
lay
hid
.
All
these
things
were
done
,
the
Tyrant
himself
beholding
and
consenting
;
and
not
only
so
,
but
they
oppressed
them
and
continually
abused
them
with
stripes
and
blowes
of
their
canes
and
fists
,
leaving
no
cruelty
unexercised
toward
them
.
In
this
Kingdome
of
Xalisco
they
consumed
by
fire
six
thousand
villages
,
upon
which
the
Indians
growing
desperate
,
seeing
the
remainder
of
those
that
escaped
daily
destroyed
;
they
made
an
insurrection
against
the
Spaniards
,
and
killing
some
of
them
,
as
they
well
deserved
,
they
betook
themselves
again
to
the
Mountains
.
But
the
cruelties
and
injuries
of
the
Tyrants
that
went
from
these
parts
to
depopulate
(
which
they
called
discover
)
other
Regions
overtaking
them
;
many
Indians
were
by
them
slain
,
while
they
sought
to
defend
themselves
in
the
rocks
:
and
to
this
present
there
are
a
thousand
Butcheries
committed
upon
them
;
whereby
there
are
hardly
left
any
people
in
the
whole
Countrey
.
And
thus
the
Spaniards
being
blinded
and
forsaken
by
God
,
and
given
over
to
a
reprobate
sense
,
considered
not
how
unagreeable
both
to
the
Law
of
God
and
nature
were
their
proceedings
against
the
Indians
,
how
unjustly
they
went
about
to
destroy
them
by
force
of
armes
,
and
not
only
to
cast
them
out
of
their
Countrey
,
but
to
torture
them
and
cut
them
in
pieces
:
nor
do
they
see
how
impious
their
violences
and
tyrannies
are
over
these
poor
people
;
they
do
believe
and
do
affirme
both
in
deed
and
word
,
that
those
victories
which
they
have
obtained
and
used
to
the
destruction
of
the
Indians
,
as
if
their
unjust
wars
were
of
right
,
and
are
so
impudent
as
to
give
God
thanks
for
them
:
like
those
theeves
of
whom
Zachary
speaks
in
the
eleventh
Chapter
,
the
third
and
fourth
Verses
.
Feed
the
flock
of
the
slaughter
,
whose
possessors
slay
them
and
hold
themselves
not
guilty
,
and
they
that
sell
them
say
,
Blessed
be
the
Lord
,
for
I
am
rich
.
Of
the
Kingdome
of
Yucatan
.
IN
the
year
1526.
a
vile
and
impious
man
through
his
sawning
and
lying
,
was
made
Governour
of
the
Kingdome
of
Yucatan
;
which
was
the
manner
that
other
tyrants
used
for
the
obtaining
of
their
preferments
and
offices
;
for
by
their
authority
they
had
greater
opportunities
to
do
mischief
.
This
Kingdome
did
abound
with
people
both
because
of
the
temper
of
the
air
,
and
for
the
plenty
of
provision
,
in
which
it
excelled
the
Countrey
of
Mexico
.
But
those
things
for
which
it
is
chiefly
famous
are
Hony
and
Wax
,
which
it
afforded
to
all
the
Countreys
of
India
,
which
have
been
hitherto
discovered
.
It
is
three
hundred
miles
in
compasse
.
This
Nation
either
as
to
policy
and
good
government
,
or
as
to
their
way
of
living
and
conversation
,
excelled
all
the
rest
;
and
well
deserved
to
have
had
more
knowledge
of
the
true
God
.
There
there
might
have
been
erected
by
the
Spaniards
many
brave
and
large
Cities
where
they
might
have
liv'd
as
in
a
Paradise
,
had
they
not
rendred
themselves
totally
unworthy
of
any
such
benefits
through
their
own
enormities
and
impieties
.
This
Tyrant
with
three
hundred
men
made
war
upon
these
innocent
Indians
living
peaceably
in
their
houses
,
and
offering
injury
to
none
,
destroying
many
people
.
And
because
the
Countrey
hath
no
Gold
,
for
if
it
had
they
had
soon
ended
the
lives
of
the
inhabitants
,
by
digging
in
the
Mines
,
making
a
gain
of
those
bodies
and
souls
for
which
Christ
died
,
therefore
those
that
they
left
alive
,
they
made
slaves
of
,
sending
whole
ships
away
fraighted
with
people
,
bartering
them
for
Wine
,
Oyle
,
Vinegar
,
Pork
,
Horses
,
and
other
things
which
they
stood
in
need
of
.
Out
of
fifty
or
a
hundred
Virgins
which
he
had
chosen
out
,
he
exchanged
the
best
of
them
for
the
smallest
vessell
of
Wine
,
Oyle
,
Vinegar
or
Pork
:
and
once
it
chanced
that
a
youth
who
was
the
Son
of
a
Prince
,
was
exchanged
for
a
Cheese
,
and
a
hundred
persons
for
a
horse
.
This
was
his
imployment
,
from
the
year
26.
to
33.
till
newes
was
brought
of
the
Regions
of
Peru
,
whither
the
Spaniards
going
put
an
end
to
their
villanies
here
for
a
small
time
.
But
after
some
daies
were
past
over
,
they
returned
again
to
their
former
rapines
and
dishonouring
of
God
by
their
wicked
courses
;
neither
have
they
yet
made
an
end
,
so
that
now
three
hundred
miles
of
Land
lie
untill'd
and
void
of
inhabitants
.
The
particulars
of
their
cruelty
are
not
to
be
remembred
,
only
two
or
three
that
come
into
my
minde
I
will
relate
.
While
the
Spaniards
were
hunting
after
the
Indians
with
their
dogs
,
they
met
with
an
Indian
Women
,
who
being
sick
and
seeing
that
she
was
not
able
to
escape
them
,
taking
a
rope
hang'd
her self
,
hanging
also
her
childe
of
a
year
old
about
her
waste
by
the
feet
;
but
the
dogs
immediately
fell
upon
the
childe
,
only
he
was
baptized
by
a
religious
person
before
he
died
.
When
the
Spaniards
departed
out
of
the
Kingdome
invited
the
son
of
a
certain
Noble
man
,
Governor
either
of
a
City
or
great
Province
,
that
he
would
go
along
with
him
,
who
answering
that
he
was
unwilling
to
leave
his
native
Countrey
,
they
threatned
to
cut
off
his
ears
unlesse
he
would
go
along
with
him
;
notwithstanding
all
which
,
he
persevered
in
his
resolution
;
whereupon
they
cut
off
his
nose
and
the
upper
part
of
his
lip
,
with
as
little
remorse
as
if
they
had
been
paring
their
nailes
.
This
Furcisur
carried
himself
obscenly
toward
a
deserving
religious
person
,
boasting
to
him
,
that
he
had
got
as
many
Indians
as
he
could
with
childe
,
that
they
might
yeeld
the
more
profit
in
the
sale
of
them
.
In
this
Kingdome
,
or
else
in
some
province
of
new
Spain
,
it
hapned
that
a
Spaniard
being
a
hunting
,
his
dogs
seemed
to
him
to
be
a
hungry
,
whereupon
he
took
a
little
Infant
out
of
the
mothers
armes
,
and
cutting
off
the
thighs
and
armes
of
the
Childe
,
cast
it
to
his
dogs
,
and
when
they
had
devoured
those
,
he
cast
the
whole
body
to
them
.
Thus
we
see
how
they
were
delivered
over
to
a
reprobate
sense
;
and
what
a
value
they
put
upon
these
creatures
formed
after
the
Image
of
God
.
But
now
worse
things
follow
.
Many
cruelties
,
and
indeed
innumerable
which
were
never
before
heard
of
,
I
doe
omit
,
only
I
shall
adde
this
one
.
These
ambitious
,
blinde
and
execrable
tyrants
going
out
of
this
Region
to
seek
more
riches
,
there
went
with
them
four
Monks
of
the
Order
of
St.
Francis
together
with
Father
Iames
,
to
keep
the
Countrey
in
peace
,
and
to
bring
the
remainder
of
those
that
were
left
by
their
preaching
to
the
knowledge
of
Christ
.
I
do
beleeve
that
these
were
they
that
in
the
year
thirty
four
were
solicited
by
the
Indians
to
come
into
their
Countrey
,
and
to
preach
to
them
the
knowledge
of
the
true
God
.
To
which
purpose
they
gathered
assemblies
and
congregations
together
,
that
they
might
know
what
sort
of
people
these
were
that
call'd
themselves
Fathers
,
and
Fryers
,
who
differed
so
much
from
the
rest
of
the
Spaniards
,
that
vex'd
them
with
so
much
affliction
and
torment
.
At
length
they
receiv'd
them
,
but
on
condition
that
they
would
come
alone
and
not
let
any
other
of
the
Spaniards
enter
in
among
them
,
which
those
religious
persons
promis'd
,
for
they
had
not
only
a
liberty
,
but
a
command
from
the
Governour
of
New
Spain
,
that
they
should
so
promise
them
,
and
that
the
Spaniards
should
do
them
no
harm
or
injury
.
Upon
which
they
began
to
preach
the
Gospel
among
them
,
and
to
declare
to
them
the
holy
intention
of
the
King
of
Spain
,
of
which
things
they
had
not
yet
received
any
knowledge
,
nor
that
they
had
any
other
King
then
him
who
oppressed
them
with
so
much
tyranny
.
The
religious
persons
had
not
been
there
above
forty
daies
,
when
they
began
to
bring
in
all
their
Idols
,
and
to
commit
them
to
the
fire
;
and
afterwards
they
brought
their
children
,
whom
they
loved
as
dearly
as
the
apples
of
their
eyes
,
to
the
religious
persons
to
be
instructed
.
And
thus
being
perswaded
by
these
religious
persons
they
did
more
then
ever
had
been
done
in
the
Indies
before
(
for
what
ever
the
Tyrants
that
had
oppressed
them
were
wont
to
tell
them
they
only
spoke
in
contempt
and
derision
on
the
Indians
)
for
above
twelve
or
fifteen
Kings
of
large
Provinces
,
together
with
their
subjects
by
their
Councell
and
consent
,
all
of
them
acknowledged
the
King
of
Castile
to
be
their
superiour
Lord
of
their
own
accord
,
and
received
him
for
their
Emperour
,
as
he
was
King
of
Spain
.
In
test●mony
whereof
I
have
a
writing
in
my
own
custody
signed
by
those
persons
.
Thus
not
without
the
great
joy
of
those
devout
persons
,
an
entry
was
made
,
for
the
bringing
of
those
inhabitants
that
were
remaining
in
these
Countreys
to
the
knowledge
of
Christ
;
but
in
the
mean
while
by
another
way
there
entred
in
among
them
about
eighteen
Spanish
Horsemen
and
twelve
footmen
,
bringing
with
them
great
loads
of
Idols
,
which
they
had
brought
out
of
other
Countreys
.
The
Captain
of
the
foresaid
Spaniards
called
to
him
one
of
the
Noble
men
of
this
Countrey
,
and
commanded
him
to
take
these
Idols
and
to
distribute
them
among
his
people
,
and
bring
in
exchange
an
Indian
man
or
woman
for
every
Idol
,
otherwise
threatning
to
make
war
upon
him
;
the
foresaid
Lord
out
of
fear
took
those
Idols
,
giving
every
one
of
them
to
his
subjects
,
commanding
them
to
worship
them
,
and
also
to
send
back
in
recompence
to
the
Spaniards
some
of
their
people
to
serve
them
.
The
Indians
terrifi'd
delivered
their
children
after
a
certain
proportion
,
those
that
had
two
giving
one
,
and
those
that
had
three
delivering
two
;
and
thus
they
ended
this
sacrilegious
merchandize
,
and
so
the
Cacique
gave
satisfaction
to
the
Spaniards
;
I
dare
not
call
them
Christians
.
One
of
these
sacrilegious
Robbers
,
Iohn
Garcia
by
name
,
being
very
sick
and
like
to
die
had
under
his
bed
two
burthens
of
these
Idols
,
who
when
the
Indian
woman
that
looked
to
him
was
with
him
,
commanded
her
that
she
should
not
deliver
those
Idols
at
a
small
rate
,
because
they
were
of
the
best
sort
,
and
therefore
that
she
should
not
sell
them
,
but
for
an
Indian
man
or
woman
in
exchange
,
and
as
he
was
making
this
kinde
of
will
he
expired
.
And
who
can
now
question
but
that
his
soul
is
now
tormented
in
the
flames
of
Hell
▪
Consider
by
this
what
was
the
progresse
of
Religion
;
and
what
examples
of
Christianity
the
Spaniards
did
shew
,
when
they
came
into
America
,
how
they
honour'd
God
themselves
,
or
how
much
they
car'd
that
the
Indians
should
know
the
right
worship
of
him
;
Judge
which
is
the
greater
crime
,
that
of
Ieroboam
who
made
Israel
to
sin
,
causing
two
golden
Calves
to
be
set
up
,
and
to
be
worshipt
by
the
people
,
or
of
the
Spaniards
,
who
caused
the
Indians
to
buy
their
Idols
,
and
made
merchandize
of
them
.
These
are
the
deeds
of
the
Spaniards
,
who
most
often
,
out
of
a
desire
of
heaping
up
gold
,
did
sell
and
do
yet
sell
,
did
deny
and
do
yet
deny
Christ
their
Redeemer
.
The
Indians
seeing
that
the
Promises
of
the
religious
persons
,
that
the
Spaniards
should
not
enter
into
their
Countrey
,
were
not
performed
,
and
that
the
Spaniards
brought
Idols
out
of
other
places
to
sell
them
into
their
Countrey
,
whereas
the
religious
persons
had
made
them
to
burn
all
theirs
,
that
there
might
be
but
one
worship
of
one
God
,
came
and
spoke
to
them
in
this
manner
.
Why
have
you
told
us
so
many
untruths
,
promising
so
faithfully
to
us
that
the
Spaniards
should
not
come
into
our
Countrey
?
Why
have
you
burnt
our
gods
,
when
as
they
do
bring
and
sell
others
among
us
?
are
the
gods
of
other
Countreys
better
then
our
own
?
The
Friers
,
although
they
had
little
to
say
,
yet
they
made
a
shift
to
pacifie
their
mindes
,
and
immediately
went
to
the
Spaniards
declaring
to
them
the
evill
which
they
had
done
,
humbly
beseeching
them
to
depart
.
Which
the
Spaniards
not
only
utterly
denyed
,
but
also
,
which
was
more
wicked
and
abominable
:
they
perswaded
the
Indians
that
they
were
called
by
the
Friers
:
which
being
believ'd
,
they
took
councell
to
kill
the
religious
persons
,
who
being
admonished
by
certain
other
Indians
,
avoided
that
danger
and
fled
.
But
after
their
departure
,
knowing
the
falshood
and
treachery
of
the
Spaniards
,
they
sent
messengers
fifty
miles
after
them
,
craving
pardon
in
the
name
of
the
Indians
,
and
intreating
them
to
return
.
The
religious
persons
,
as
upright
servants
of
God
and
zealous
for
the
souls
of
those
poor
people
,
gave
credit
to
the
messengers
and
returned
,
and
were
entertained
as
if
they
had
been
Angels
sent
from
heaven
,
and
remained
with
the
Indians
for
five
moneths
,
receiving
a
thousand
courtesies
from
them
.
But
when
the
Spaniards
would
not
depart
from
thence
,
although
the
Viceroy
used
all
his
endevours
to
recall
them
;
he
declared
them
Traytors
and
guilty
of
high
Treason
;
and
moreover
,
when
the
persevered
in
their
tyranny
and
oppression
,
the
religious
persons
seeing
,
that
though
revenge
came
late
,
that
yet
they
would
not
go
unpunished
,
and
fearing
lest
that
revenge
might
fall
upon
their
own
heads
,
and
besides
not
being
able
to
preach
the
Gospell
in
quiet
,
by
reason
of
the
incursions
of
the
Spaniards
,
resolv'd
to
leave
the
Kingdome
,
which
now
remains
destitute
of
all
knowledge
,
the
souls
of
these
poor
Indians
remaining
in
their
past
miseries
of
ignorance
and
Heathenisme
,
all
the
streams
of
divine
knowledge
being
taken
from
them
,
by
these
cursed
Spaniards
,
as
when
water
is
taken
from
the
young
plants
;
for
at
the
time
when
they
went
away
,
the
Indians
were
very
covetous
after
the
knowledge
of
our
Religion
.
Of
the
Province
of
Sancta
Martha
.
THE
Province
of
St.
Martha
by
reason
of
the
Golden
Mines
&
the
fertility
of
the
place
wa●
a
brave
Island
;
wherefore
from
the
year
1528.
to
1542.
many
tyrants
went
thither
by
sea
,
with
their
incursions
wasting
and
spoyling
all
the
Island
,
after
a
strange
manner
destroying
the
inhabitants
,
and
robbing
them
of
all
their
Gold
.
And
so
the
whole
Countrey
was
wasted
by
them
,
especially
all
the
coast
and
the
places
adjoyning
,
untill
the
year
1523.
And
because
it
was
a
fruitfull
Countrey
,
there
went
thither
at
severall
times
severall
Captains
,
succediug
one
another
in
cruelty
,
so
that
every
one
striv'd
to
out-vie
his
predecessor
in
the
inventions
of
exquisite
torments
to
afflict
the
poor
people
.
And
thus
also
in
this
place
they
confirm'd
our
foresaid
Axiome
.
In
the
year
1529.
there
went
thither
a
very
great
tyrant
accompanied
with
many
Troops
,
with
an
intention
to
exceed
all
the
rest
of
his
predecessors
in
cruelty
,
who
took
away
abundance
of
treasure
from
the
people
in
the
space
of
seven
years
;
in
which
exile
he
dying
without
repentance
,
into
his
place
other
tyrants
succeeded
,
where
with
their
bloudy
hands
and
impious
points
of
their
swords
they
destroy'd
all
the
rest
that
their
predecessors
had
spared
.
And
such
a
desolation
they
brought
upon
many
provinces
by
their
accustomed
waies
of
cruelty
,
and
inflicted
so
many
torments
upon
the
Princes
and
people
to
force
them
to
declare
where
their
treasure
lay
,
that
from
the
year
1529.
to
this
day
they
depopulated
above
four
hundred
mile
of
land
,
the
number
of
people
in
these
parts
slain
being
not
inferior
to
those
who
had
been
slain
in
other
places
.
If
I
had
decreed
to
reckon
up
the
impieties
,
slaughters
,
cruelties
,
violences
,
rapines
,
murders
,
and
iniquities
,
and
other
crimes
committed
by
the
Spaniards
against
God
,
the
King
,
and
these
innocent
Nations
,
I
should
make
two
large
a
volume
:
yet
I
shall
do
my
endevour
,
if
God
grant
me
life
.
For
the
present
I
will
rehearse
a
part
of
those
things
which
the
Bishops
of
these
Provinces
wrote
to
the
King
our
Soveraign
Lord
.
These
were
letters
dated
the
25.
of
May
,
in
the
year
,
1541.
In
which
these
words
are
written
.
I
tell
your
sacred
Majesty
,
that
there
is
no
remedy
to
ease
this
afflicted
Nation
,
but
to
deliver
it
out
of
the
power
of
these
step-fathers
,
and
to
give
it
into
the
power
of
a
loving
husband
,
which
may
use
it
with
more
gentlenesse
as
befits
it
,
and
that
as
soon
as
may
be
;
for
if
there
be
any
delay
,
it
must
of
necessity
perish
.
And
a
little
after
he
proceeds
thus
.
By
which
it
shall
be
apparent
to
your
Majesty
,
how
deservedly
the
Governors
of
these
Provinces
ought
to
be
deprived
of
their
dignity
,
that
the
Provinces
may
be
eased
;
which
if
it
be
not
suddenly
done
,
these
provinces
will
never
be
eased
.
This
also
your
Majesty
may
further
take
notice
of
,
that
they
are
not
men
that
live
here
but
Devils
,
that
there
are
no
servants
of
God
or
the
King
to
be
found
,
but
traytors
both
to
the
Law
and
King
.
Now
certainly
there
is
nothing
more
destructive
to
the
peace
of
the
Nation
,
and
that
hinders
more
the
conversion
of
those
that
live
there
in
peace
,
then
the
cruel
and
hard
usage
which
the
Spaniards
afflict
those
innocent
people
withall
,
which
bred
in
them
such
a
loathing
of
the
Spanish
name
,
that
nothing
is
more
odious
and
detestable
.
For
the
Indians
call
them
Yaes
,
which
in
their
language
signifies
Devils
.
And
truly
not
without
reason
,
for
the
actions
of
these
people
have
been
more
like
the
actions
of
Devils
,
whereby
it
happens
that
the
Indians
seing
such
crimes
committed
by
the
Spaniards
both
of
high
and
inferiour
conditions
,
so
void
of
pity
and
compassion
,
cannot
chuse
but
think
amisse
both
of
God
,
the
King
,
and
〈◊〉
of
the
Christians
;
and
to
labour
to
〈◊〉
them
to
the
contrary
,
is
a
vain
and
fruitlesse
labour
,
and
whereby
a
greater
advantage
is
given
them
to
laugh
at
Christ
and
his
Law
.
And
as
for
the
Indians
that
take
armes
to
defend
themselves
they
think
it
better
to
die
once
,
then
to
fall
into
the
hands
of
their
enemies
,
and
to
be
afflicted
with
many
deaths
.
These
things
,
most
invincible
Caesar
,
I
have
learnt
by
experience
.
He
addes
further
,
Your
Majesty
hath
in
these
Countreys
more
friends
and
servants
then
you
are
aware
of
;
for
there
is
no
souldier
of
all
those
that
serve
in
these
parts
,
who
does
not
publickly
and
openly
professe
,
whether
he
rob
,
steal
,
kill
or
burn
the
subjects
of
your
Majesty
,
for
the
obtaining
of
gold
,
but
that
he
does
it
to
do
your
Majesty
service
.
Wherefore
most
invincible
Caesar
it
would
be
requisite
,
that
you
should
signifie
by
the
severe
correction
of
some
,
how
displeased
you
were
with
such
services
,
whereby
they
shew
themselves
so
disobedient
and
refractory
to
God
himself
.
Which
words
are
taken
from
the
writings
of
the
said
Bishop
of
St.
Martha
,
out
of
which
it
is
manifest
,
what
strange
things
have
been
committed
,
and
are
daily
committed
by
them
.
They
call
the
Indians
Warlike
,
that
continually
flie
to
the
Mountains
to
avoid
the
cruelty
of
the
Spaniards
,
and
they
call
those
the
Indians
and
Inhabitants
of
the
Countrey
,
whom
they
have
subjected
to
the
hardship
of
a
perpetual
slavery
by
the
terror
of
their
massacres
:
by
which
they
have
been
depopulated
and
wasted
,
as
appears
out
of
the
letters
of
the
foresaid
Bishop
,
who
recites
but
a
very
few
of
those
things
that
were
committed
.
The
Indians
of
these
Regions
us'd
to
break
forth
into
these
expressions
,
when
they
are
forc'd
naked
through
the
craggie
passages
of
the
mountains
,
if
at
any
time
they
chanced
to
faint
with
wearinesse
(
for
then
they
are
constantly
beaten
with
canes
,
sometimes
their
teeth
knockt
out
with
the
hilts
of
their
swords
,
to
make
them
rise
and
proceed
on
in
their
journeys
without
any
rest
)
then
were
they
wont
I
say
to
break
forth
into
these
expressions
,
Oh
how
envious
art
thou
▪
I
faint
,
kill
me
,
and
put
an
end
to
my
daies
:
this
they
sigh
forth
,
scarcly
able
to
draw
out
their
words
,
the
certain
signs
of
an
inward
anguish
and
deep
distresse
;
but
who
can
comprehend
in
words
the
hundredth
part
of
these
calamities
and
afflictions
wherewith
the
Spaniards
do
torment
the
poor
Indians
;
God
of
his
mercy
bring
them
to
the
knowledge
of
those
who
are
able
to
remedy
and
prevent
them
for
the
future
.
Of
the
Province
of
Carthagena
.
THis
Province
is
distant
from
the
Island
of
St.
Martha
toward
the
West
50.
miles
,
and
is
situated
upon
the
confines
of
the
Kingdome
of
Cerusia
,
being
stretched
upon
the
sea
coast
to
the
Bay
of
Vraba
a
hundred
miles
in
length
,
South
ward
it
is
also
stretched
to
a
very
great
length
.
These
Provinces
from
the
year
1498.
to
this
present
year
were
handled
after
a
most
cruel
manner
,
and
depopulated
with
several
kindes
of
slaughters
,
as
it
happened
in
the
Islands
of
St.
Martha
:
but
that
I
may
come
to
a
quick
conclusion
I
shall
cease
to
speak
of
every
particular
,
that
I
may
make
hast
to
the
rehearsal
of
those
detestable
crimes
which
they
committed
in
other
Countreys
.
Of
the
shore
of
Pearls
,
of
Paria
,
and
of
the
Island
of
the
Trinity
.
FRom
the
shore
of
Paria
,
to
the
Bay
of
V●necuela
,
which
takes
up
above
two
hundred
miles
in
length
,
the
Spaniards
committed
most
wonderful
depopulations
;
for
they
gave
themselves
wholly
to
their
wonted
Robberies
,
enslaving
also
infinite
numbers
of
men
,
on
purpose
to
sell
them
for
money
,
against
all
the
faith
and
pledges
which
they
had
given
them
for
their
security
(
for
those
were
things
which
they
never
observed
)
though
they
were
entertained
by
these
innocent
creatures
with
all
civility
,
and
softered
in
their
houses
like
their
parents
,
or
children
,
serving
them
in
all
things
to
the
utmost
of
their
power
,
and
making
them
masters
of
all
that
was
in
their
possession
.
It
can
hardly
be
said
or
expressed
,
with
how
many
injuries
and
unjust
actions
they
used
to
afflict
the
poor
Indians
in
these
Countreys
from
1510.
untill
this
present
year
.
Two
or
three
of
their
most
hainous
crimes
I
will
rehearse
,
whereby
the
reader
may
judge
of
the
wickedness
of
those
which
remain
untold
.
Into
the
Island
of
the
Trinity
being
larger
and
more
fertile
then
Sicily
,
and
stored
with
Inhabitants
,
according
to
their
quality
,
more
ingenuous
&
vertuous
then
any
other
Nation
of
the
Indians
,
a
certain
Robber
went
in
the
year
1510.
accompanyed
with
fifty
or
sixty
other
fellow
theeves
,
who
presently
proclaim'd
an
edict
that
all
the
Indians
should
come
into
the
Island
to
live
with
him
.
The
Indians
received
them
as
their
natural
Countreymen
,
both
Princes
and
subjects
yeelding
obedience
to
them
with
much
chearfulnesse
,
bringing
provision
to
them
every
day
as
much
as
would
have
sufficed
to
have
served
a
far
greater
number
;
for
this
is
the
custome
of
the
Inhabitants
of
this
new
world
,
to
afford
all
necessaries
to
the
Spaniards
in
great
abundance
.
A
little
while
after
the
Spaniards
built
a
great
house
for
the
Indians
to
dwel
in
,
for
they
would
not
that
all
of
them
should
have
more
then
one
house
,
where
they
might
all
dwell
together
,
that
they
might
with
more
convenience
execute
that
which
they
had
in
their
resolutions
;
which
they
did
accordingly
:
for
when
they
had
thatched
it
over
,
and
raised
it
to
the
height
of
two
men
,
they
shut
up
abundance
of
them
in
the
said
house
upon
pretence
to
hasten
the
work
;
but
in
truth
,
that
those
within
might
not
be
seen
by
those
without
;
then
a
part
of
them
compass'd
the
house
with
their
weapons
that
none
might
enter
in
or
go
forth
;
after
that
others
of
them
went
in
,
and
unsheathing
their
swords
,
they
threatned
death
to
the
naked
Indians
if
they
stir'd
,
and
then
bound
them
.
And
if
any
of
them
went
about
to
flye
,
they
were
in
the
place
immediately
cut
in
pieces
;
some
few
that
escaped
,
part
wounded
,
and
part
whole
,
joyning
themselves
with
those
who
stood
without
,
being
about
two
hundred
in
number
,
with
bowes
and
arrowes
retreated
to
another
house
,
who
being
all
at
one
end
stoutly
defending
the
entry
of
the
house
,
the
Spaniards
set
fire
to
the
other
end
,
and
so
they
all
there
perished
by
fire
.
Hence
they
departed
with
their
prisoners
,
all
they
could
lay
hold
on
,
being
about
a
hundred
and
eighty
,
to
the
Island
of
St.
Iohn
where
the
sold
half
,
and
from
thence
also
to
the
Island
of
Hispaniola
,
where
they
fold
the
rest
.
Now
when
I
taxed
the
Captain
for
his
wickednesse
,
after
he
came
to
the
Island
of
St.
Iohn
?
He
gave
me
this
answer
,
Pray
sir
be
patient
,
for
I
was
commanded
by
those
that
sent
me
,
that
those
that
I
could
not
take
by
fair
means
,
I
should
seize
by
force
:
yet
the
said
Captain
had
related
to
me
for
certain
,
that
in
the
Island
of
the
Trinity
he
found
them
both
fathers
and
mothers
to
him
,
which
he
spoke
to
his
greater
confusion
and
the
aggravation
of
his
crime
.
Infinite
of
other
things
they
did
,
taking
captive
these
poor
people
against
all
faith
given
.
Let
these
actions
be
well
considered
,
and
whether
the
Indians
so
taken
may
be
justly
enslaved
or
no
.
Once
the
Fryers
of
the
Order
of
St.
Dominick
consulted
about
sending
some
of
their
Order
to
this
Island
,
to
spread
the
light
of
the
Gospel
among
the
Indians
,
for
the
salvation
of
their
souls
;
Whereupon
they
sent
a
Licentiate
,
famous
for
his
sanctity
with
a
lay
man
,
to
accompany
him
,
to
visit
the
Countrey
,
converse
with
the
Inhabitants
,
and
to
seek
out
fit
places
for
the
the
building
of
Monasteries
.
The
religious
persons
being
arriv'd
were
received
as
Angels
from
heaven
,
ear
being
giv'n
to
their
words
with
all
attention
,
alacrity
and
affection
,
that
they
were
able
at
that
time
,
for
they
were
ignorant
of
our
language
;
it
happened
afterwards
when
the
religious
persons
were
gone
,
that
there
came
a
band
of
Souldiers
,
who
according
to
their
wonted
customes
of
fraud
and
impiety
,
carried
away
captive
the
Prince
of
the
Province
,
who
(
either
because
that
name
was
given
him
by
the
Religious
persons
,
or
by
the
other
Spaniards
)
was
call'd
Alfonsus
;
for
they
delight
to
be
called
by
the
names
of
the
Christians
,
and
therefore
before
they
are
informed
of
any
thing
else
they
desire
to
be
baptized
.
By
these
souldiers
was
Alfonsus
craftily
seduced
a
shipboard
under
pretence
that
they
would
give
him
a
Banquet
;
with
their
Prince
there
went
seventeen
other
persons
,
for
they
had
a
confidence
that
the
Fryers
would
keep
the
Spaniards
from
doing
them
any
injury
,
For
otherwise
the
said
King
would
not
have
trusted
them
so
far
;
but
they
were
no
sooner
on
shipboard
,
but
the
Spaniards
hoysed
up
their
sailes
for
Hispaniola
,
where
they
sold
all
the
Indians
for
slaves
;
Now
all
the
Region
being
troubled
for
the
losse
of
their
King
and
Queen
,
flockt
to
the
Religious
persons
,
and
had
like
to
have
slain
them
;
who
perceiving
the
injustice
of
the
Spaniards
were
very
much
troubled
;
and
I
do
beleeve
,
that
they
had
rather
have
lost
their
lives
,
then
that
the
Indians
should
have
suffered
such
an
injury
to
the
hinderance
of
their
salvation
;
but
the
Indians
were
satisfied
with
the
promises
of
the
religious
persons
,
who
told
them
,
that
as
soon
as
any
ships
came
to
the
Island
,
they
would
take
the
first
opportunity
to
go
to
Hispaniola
and
endevour
to
get
their
King
and
Queen
set
at
liberty
.
Providence
sent
a
ship
thither
to
confirm
the
condemnation
of
those
that
govern'd
,
by
which
these
religious
persons
sent
to
the
religious
persons
of
Hispaniola
,
but
got
no
redress
,
for
the
Spaniards
there
were
receivers
of
the
prey
.
When
the
religious
persons
,
who
had
promised
to
the
Indians
that
their
King
should
return
within
four
moneths
,
saw
that
he
did
not
come
in
eight
moneths
,
they
prepared
themselves
for
death
,
and
to
give
up
their
lives
to
Christ
to
whom
they
had
offer'd
them
before
their
departure
out
of
Hispaniola
;
and
so
the
innocent
Indians
reveng'd
themselves
upon
the
innocent
Friers
.
For
the
Indians
,
believed
that
the
religious
persons
were
guilty
of
the
said
treachery
,
partly
because
that
their
promises
concerning
the
return
of
their
King
in
four
moneths
had
prov'd
so
vain
,
partly
because
the
Indians
make
no
distinction
between
the
religious
persons
and
the
theeving
Spaniards
.
It
hapned
also
that
at
another
time
,
through
the
great
tyranny
and
oppression
of
the
evil
Christians
,
that
the
Indians
slew
two
religious
persons
of
the
order
of
St.
Dominic
,
of
which
I
was
a
very
real
witnesse
,
as
being
one
of
those
who
escaped
the
same
fate
by
a
great
miracle
,
which
I
had
resolved
not
to
have
mentioned
,
lest
the
horror
of
the
fact
should
deter
others
.
Wherefore
to
avoid
prolixity
,
I
shall
say
no
more
concerning
these
things
,
leaving
them
to
be
revealed
at
the
day
of
judgement
,
when
God
shall
pour
his
vengeance
down
upon
these
robbers
and
destroyers
of
mankinde
.
In
these
Provinces
in
the
Bay
of
Coderat
,
there
was
a
City
,
the
Lord
of
which
was
called
Higueroto
,
a
name
common
either
to
the
persons
,
or
to
the
officers
of
the
place
.
He
was
a
person
so
milde
and
gentle
,
and
all
his
subjects
endued
with
such
vertue
using
the
Spaniards
that
arriv'd
there
with
that
civility
,
that
they
thought
nothing
too
much
for
them
,
bestowing
all
things
needfull
either
for
sustenance
or
delight
that
their
Countrey
afforded
.
This
Lord
had
saved
many
from
death
,
who
had
escaped
out
of
other
Provinces
,
from
the
murthers
and
slaughters
of
the
Spaniards
,
being
a
kind
of
a
sanctuary
for
the
sick
and
half
famished
persons
that
came
into
his
Countrey
,
and
when
they
were
recovered
sent
them
back
again
to
the
Island
of
pearls
where
the
Spaniards
liv'd
,
though
he
had
an
opportunity
to
have
slain
them
,
there
being
none
to
regard
or
misse
them
;
in
brief
,
the
Spaniards
had
all
the
houses
of
the
inhabitants
in
common
,
and
all
the
subjects
of
Higueroto
they
called
their
own
subjects
;
but
a
perfidious
Spaniard
took
councel
how
he
might
destroy
this
Region
which
seem'd
it self
so
safe
and
secure
;
presently
therefore
he
sayl'd
thither
,
and
invited
a
great
number
of
men
to
come
a
shipboard
,
who
giving
credit
to
the
Spaniards
,
came
willingly
to
them
;
but
they
were
no
sooner
entred
the
ship
,
but
the
Spaniards
hoysed
sayl
for
the
Island
of
St.
Iohn
where
they
sold
them
all
.
At
the
same
time
I
arriv'd
at
this
Island
,
where
I
saw
this
tyrant
,
and
was
told
the
relation
of
what
he
had
done
.
He
wholly
destroyed
the
City
it self
,
which
the
other
Spaniards
who
were
wont
to
harrace
all
the
sea
coast
,
were
notwithstanding
much
troubled
at
,
abominating
actions
so
hainous
committed
against
them
who
had
been
so
courteous
and
liberal
to
them
,
and
where
they
had
been
entertain'd
as
in
their
own
houses
.
I
will
not
recite
the
infinite
wickednesses
which
have
been
committed
by
them
,
and
are
daily
committed
among
them
.
These
Spaniards
departed
from
the
sea
coast
to
the
Islands
of
Hispaniola
and
St.
Iohn
,
carrying
with
them
above
two
millions
of
men
to
the
said
Islands
,
which
they
afterwards
destroyed
through
hard
labour
and
continual
bad
usage
;
those
that
before
liv'd
in
this
Island
,
being
not
reckned
into
their
number
,
who
were
an
infinite
and
unspeakable
number
,
and
it
is
a
most
sad
thing
to
consider
,
and
that
which
would
move
the
most
cruel
hearts
,
to
see
all
this
fertile
shore
lie
desert
and
depopulated
.
This
is
also
a
known
thing
,
that
they
never
do
transport
Indians
from
these
places
,
but
in
their
voyage
they
do
pay
the
third
●art
of
them
as
a
tribute
to
the
waves
,
besides
those
that
are
murthered
in
their
own
houses
.
The
cause
of
all
these
things
are
their
own
wicked
purposes
;
that
is
to
say
,
by
the
sale
of
the
Indians
to
heap
up
treasure
,
yet
furnishing
the
ships
not
with
half
provisions
for
the
sustenance
of
those
that
they
transport
,
because
they
would
not
be
at
too
much
charges
;
and
sometimes
there
are
hardly
provisions
enough
to
suffice
the
Spaniards
themselves
,
so
that
the
Indians
ready
to
die
for
hunger
and
thirst
,
are
immediately
thrown
into
the
sea
.
And
it
was
related
to
me
for
certain
,
that
a
ship
going
from
Hispaniola
to
the
Island
of
Lucayos
,
sayl'd
thither
without
any
compasse
,
only
by
the
Carkasses
that
floated
up
and
down
the
sea
.
Afterwards
when
they
are
landed
,
where
they
are
carried
to
be
sold
,
there
is
no
man
that
would
not
be
mov'd
with
compassion
,
to
see
both
old
and
young
,
men
and
women
,
naked
and
hungry
,
drop
and
faint
as
they
goe
along
.
Afterwards
they
divide
them
like
sheep
,
separating
sons
from
fathers
,
wives
from
their
husbands
;
and
then
making
up
a
company
of
ten
or
twenty
,
those
that
set
out
the
ships
,
and
fitted
them
with
necessaries
,
presently
cast
lots
for
their
shares
.
And
when
the
lot
fell
upon
a
company
that
had
an
old
or
a
sick
man
,
he
to
whom
the
lot
fell
,
was
wont
to
break
forth
into
these
expressions
,
Cursed
be
this
old
fellow
,
why
do
you
give
him
me
?
to
bury
him
?
why
do
you
give
me
this
sick
man
?
to
be
his
keeper
?
And
thus
let
us
consider
,
in
what
estimation
the
Indians
are
among
the
Spaniards
,
and
how
the
precept
of
Charity
on
which
the
Law
and
the
Prophets
depends
is
observed
among
them
.
There
is
nothing
more
detestable
or
more
cruel
,
then
the
tyranny
which
the
Spaniards
use
toward
the
Indians
for
the
getting
of
pearl
.
Surely
the
infernall
torments
cannot
much
exceed
the
anguish
that
they
indure
,
by
reason
of
that
way
of
cruelty
;
for
they
put
them
under
water
some
four
or
five
ells
deep
,
where
they
are
forced
without
any
liberty
of
respiration
,
to
gather
up
the
shels
wherein
the
Pearls
are
;
sometimes
they
come
up
again
with
nets
full
of
shels
to
take
breath
,
but
if
they
stay
any
while
to
rest
themselves
,
immediately
comes
a
hangman
row'd
in
a
little
boat
,
who
as
soon
as
he
hath
well
beaten
them
,
drags
them
again
to
their
labour
.
Their
food
is
nothing
but
fish
,
and
the
very
same
that
contains
the
Pearl
,
with
a
small
portion
of
that
bread
which
that
Countrey
affords
;
in
the
first
whereof
there
is
little
nourishment
;
and
as
for
the
latter
,
it
is
made
with
great
difficulty
,
besides
that
they
have
not
enough
of
that
neither
for
sustenance
;
they
lye
upon
the
ground
in
fetters
,
lest
they
should
run
away
;
and
many
times
they
are
drown'd
in
this
labour
,
and
are
never
seen
again
till
they
swim
upon
the
top
of
the
waves
:
oftentimes
they
also
are
devoured
by
certain
sea
monsters
,
that
are
frequent
in
those
seas
.
Consider
whether
this
hard
usage
of
the
poor
creatures
be
consistent
with
the
precepts
which
God
commands
concerning
charity
to
our
neighbour
,
by
those
that
cast
them
so
undeservedly
into
the
dangers
of
a
cruel
death
,
causing
them
to
perish
without
any
remorse
or
pity
,
or
allowing
them
the
benefit
of
the
Sacraments
,
or
the
knowledge
of
Religion
;
it
being
impossible
for
them
to
live
any
time
under
the
water
;
and
this
death
is
so
much
the
more
painful
,
by
reason
that
by
the
coarctation
of
the
brest
,
while
the
lungs
strive
to
do
their
office
,
the
vitall
parts
are
so
afflicted
that
they
dye
vomiting
the
bloud
out
of
their
mouthes
.
Their
hair
also
,
which
is
by
nature
black
,
is
hereby
chang'd
and
made
of
the
same
colour
with
that
of
the
sea
Wolves
;
their
bodies
are
also
so
besprinkled
with
the
froth
of
the
sea
,
that
they
appear
rather
like
monsters
then
men
.
By
this
intolerable
labour
,
or
rather
diabolical
exercise
,
they
have
consumed
all
the
Lucayans
,
for
their
particular
gain
;
out
of
every
Indians
labour
gaining
above
fifty
or
a
hundred
Crowns
.
They
sold
them
also
against
all
justice
;
only
because
Lucayans
were
most
skilfull
swimmers
.
There
perished
also
many
of
the
Inhabitants
of
other
Provinces
in
this
place
.
Of
the
River
of
Yuya
Pari.
THrough
this
Province
runs
the
River
of
Yuya
Pari
which
rises
in
other
Countreys
about
two
huudred
miles
distant
.
Into
this
River
entred
a
perfidious
Tyrant
,
wasting
many
miles
of
Land
,
committing
many
slaughters
,
consuming
many
by
fire
,
and
putting
an
infinite
number
of
these
poor
Indians
to
the
sword
,
that
liv'd
peaceably
in
their
own
houses
without
any
suspicion
of
making
disturbance
.
At
length
he
dy'd
an
evill
death
,
and
all
his
forces
came
to
ruine
,
though
he
were
succeeded
by
many
others
,
not
inferiour
to
him
in
impiety
,
who
daily
destroy
the
souls
of
the
poor
Indians
,
for
whom
the
bloud
of
Christ
was
spilt
.
Of
the
Kingdome
of
Venecuela
.
IN
the
yeare
1526.
our
Soveraigne
Lord
the
King
through
the
false
perswasions
of
some
evil
Counsellours
made
over
to
certaine
Dutch
Merchants
the
Kingdome
of
Venecuela
,
being
more
large
and
long
then
Spain
,
giving
to
the
Governour
a
full
and
plenary
jurisdiction
over
the
said
People
upon
certain
conditions
.
They
entered
this
Region
with
about
30.
men
,
where
they
found
the
people
affable
and
courteous
as
they
were
in
other
Countries
of
India
before
they
were
killed
up
by
the
Spaniards
.
They
by
many
degrees
crueller
then
the
rest
of
whom
we
have
spoken
shewed
themselves
more
fierce
and
greedy
then
Tygers
,
Wolves
or
Lyons
;
for
having
a
jurisdiction
over
the
Land
,
and
therefore
possessing
it
more
freely
,
they
bestirred
themselves
with
greater
fury
and
covetousnesse
in
the
heaping
up
of
Gold
and
Silver
,
then
any
of
their
Predecessors
had
done
before
them
;
laying
aside
all
feare
of
God
,
or
of
the
King
,
and
forgetting
all
humanity
.
These
incarnate
devils
laid
waste
and
spoiled
above
400.
miles
of
most
fertile
land
,
containing
very
great
Provinces
,
fruitful
Vallies
forty
miles
in
length
;
and
an
infinite
number
of
Villages
abounding
with
Gold
and
Silver
.
So
many
,
and
so
many
several
regions
they
so
utterly
depopulated
,
that
they
hardly
left
a
Messenger
of
these
sad
tydings
,
but
those
which
hiding
themselves
in
the
Caverns
and
Bowels
of
the
Earth
escaped
the
thirst
of
their
enraged
swords
.
With
new
and
unusual
sorts
of
torments
they
destroyed
above
four
or
five
millions
of
people
;
Neither
do
they
yet
put
an
end
to
their
abominable
crimes
and
enormities
:
Three
or
four
of
their
mad
actions
I
will
rehearse
,
whereby
the
reader
may
judge
of
the
rest
.
The
chiefe
Lord
of
the
Province
they
took
captive
,
putting
him
to
several
torments
to
squeeze
his
Gold
from
him
;
but
he
escaping
fled
to
the
Mountaines
,
and
thereupon
his
Subjects
that
lay
hid
among
the
Woods
and
Bushes
began
to
raise
a
tumult
;
The
Spainards
followed
destroying
abundance
of
the
people
;
and
as
for
those
who
were
taken
alive
,
they
were
publickly
sold
for
slaves
.
In
many
Provinces
,
and
indeed
in
most
Provinces
where
they
came
before
the
captivity
of
the
chief
Lord
,
they
were
still
welcom'd
by
the
Indians
with
Songs
and
Dances
and
great
Presents
of
Gold
;
though
the
thanks
which
they
gave
them
was
alwayes
with
the
points
of
their
swords
,
still
recompensing
them
with
Massacres
.
One
day
when
they
came
forth
to
meet
the
Spaniards
,
the
German
Tyrant
and
Captaine
caus'd
an
infinite
number
of
them
to
be
shut
up
in
a
house
made
up
with
straw
,
where
he
commanded
that
they
should
be
all
cut
in
pieces
.
Now
by
reason
that
there
were
beames
in
the
house
whither
the
Indians
got
up
to
avoid
the
fury
of
the
German
swords
;
therefore
(
O
cruel
beasts
)
the
Governour
sent
certaine
men
to
set
fire
upon
the
house
,
and
so
burnt
them
alive
:
So
that
now
the
whole
Region
lay
waste
and
desolate
,
the
inhabitants
being
all
fled
to
the
Mountaines
for
safety
.
They
came
afterwards
to
another
large
Province
neere
to
that
of
St.
Martha
,
where
they
found
the
Indians
in
their
houses
and
Cities
very
peaceably
employed
about
their
occasions
,
where
they
liv'd
a
good
while
at
the
charges
of
the
inhabitants
,
the
Indians
serving
them
like
men
in
whose
power
their
lives
and
safeties
were
,
induring
beyond
imagination
their
continual
importunities
and
daily
oppressions
,
which
were
almost
intolerable
.
This
being
added
,
which
I
said
before
,
that
one
Spainard
consumes
in
one
day
as
much
as
would
suffice
to
serve
an
Indian
family
consisting
commonly
of
ten
persons
for
a
whole
month
.
At
that
time
the
Indians
presented
them
with
several
great
summes
of
Gold
,
doing
many
other
kindnesses
for
them
.
At
length
when
they
were
about
to
go
away
,
as
a
recompence
for
all
their
courteous
entertainment
,
they
resolv'd
to
leave
them
after
this
manner
.
The
German
Tyrant
gave
command
that
all
the
Indians
with
their
wives
and
children
if
possible
,
should
be
gathered
together
and
shut
up
in
one
large
place
;
which
done
,
they
were
also
commanded
to
signifie
to
them
,
that
whoever
desired
to
be
at
liberty
,
must
redeeme
themselves
with
their
wives
and
children
at
a
certain
Ransome
,
impos'd
upon
them
at
the
discretion
of
the
Governour
;
&
to
hasten
them
the
more
and
bring
them
to
a
greater
necessity
,
he
commanded
that
no
sustenance
should
be
given
them
,
till
they
had
pay'd
the
sum
required
.
Hereupon
many
sent
home
for
the
price
of
their
Redemption
,
that
they
might
be
at
liberty
to
seek
for
Victuals
:
But
they
had
not
been
long
at
home
ere
they
were
brought
back
again
by
the
Robbers
,
and
shut
up
in
the
same
place
,
that
being
oppressed
with
hunger
and
thirst
they
might
be
forc'd
to
redeem
themselves
once
more
;
and
thus
were
many
of
them
three
or
four
times
faine
to
ransom
themselves
.
And
in
this
manner
a
Country
abounding
with
Gold
and
people
was
totally
destroy'd
;
in
which
there
was
a
Valley
forty
miles
long
,
where
they
burnt
a
Village
that
contained
above
a
thousand
houses
.
This
Governour
went
further
,
having
a
great
desire
to
see
the
lower
parts
of
Perue
;
for
which
journey
he
provided
an
infinite
number
of
Indians
,
lading
them
with
chaines
and
heavy
burthens
;
and
if
any
of
them
fainted
by
the
way
,
because
they
would
not
stand
to
loosen
the
chaines
,
they
cut
off
their
hands
and
heads
,
casting
the
head
one
way
,
and
the
body
another
,
and
their
burdens
were
divided
and
impos'd
upon
others
.
And
now
should
I
reckon
the
Provinces
which
he
laid
desert
,
the
Cities
which
he
burnt
,
for
all
their
houses
are
of
straw
,
besides
the
particular
slaughters
which
they
made
,
though
I
am
confident
of
the
truth
thereof
,
yet
should
I
scarcely
be
beleeved
,
by
reason
that
so
much
cruelty
could
not
be
suppos'd
in
man
.
This
course
took
other
Tyrants
that
departed
from
Venequela
and
the
Province
of
St.
Martha
,
with
a
resolution
to
make
a
further
discovery
of
the
Divine
Gold
of
Perue
:
But
they
found
that
glorious
Country
so
desert
,
so
depopulated
,
so
wasted
and
destroyed
,
that
they
themselves
though
a
crew
of
blood
thirsty
Tyrants
,
were
amaz'd
and
wondred
to
behold
such
ruines
and
depopulations
.
These
and
many
other
things
were
prov'd
before
the
fiscal
of
the
Indian
Council
,
and
the
several
proofes
are
kept
by
the
said
Council
;
though
t
is
most
certain
that
they
never
put
to
death
any
of
those
cursed
Tyrants
,
as
if
all
the
devastations
and
murders
by
them
committed
had
not
been
at
all
to
be
regarded
.
For
hitherto
the
Ministers
of
Justice
in
India
through
their
extraordinary
and
damned
blindnesse
,
have
never
been
very
solicitous
to
inquire
after
the
crimes
and
slaughters
which
those
Tyrants
have
committed
,
or
daily
do
commit
.
Onely
they
tell
you
slightly
,
that
because
such
and
such
a
one
did
ill
and
handled
the
Indians
so
cruelly
,
that
therefore
the
Treasury
of
the
King
was
much
diminished
;
and
this
is
all
they
do
toward
the
suppression
of
so
many
hainous
actions
.
Neither
are
those
,
which
are
prov'd
,
verifi'd
to
any
purpose
,
neither
is
there
that
credit
given
to
them
as
indeed
there
should
be
;
for
if
they
would
but
do
their
duty
both
to
God
and
the
King
,
they
would
soon
finde
the
King
to
have
been
cheated
by
the
German
Tyrants
of
above
three
millions
of
Gold
;
for
the
Region
of
Venecuela
being
about
400.
miles
in
length
,
for
the
happinesse
of
the
soile
and
the
abundance
of
Gold
is
not
inferiour
to
any
of
the
rest
:
and
thus
in
the
space
of
seventeen
years
wherein
these
enemies
of
God
and
the
King
,
have
done
nothing
else
but
destroy'd
and
wasted
these
Countries
,
they
have
,
as
I
said
before
,
defrauded
the
King
not
of
lesse
then
three
millions
of
Gold
.
Neither
is
it
to
be
hop'd
that
these
losses
can
be
repaired
as
long
as
the
World
stands
,
unlesse
God
by
some
miracle
should
raise
from
the
dead
so
many
people
as
have
been
slaine
;
besides
the
blasphemies
and
curses
wherewith
they
have
been
bold
to
provoke
even
God
himselfe
.
But
what
recompence
can
be
made
for
the
destroying
of
so
many
soules
,
which
through
the
cruelty
and
tyranny
of
so
many
blood-sucking
Tyrants
are
now
tormented
in
hell
?
This
also
may
be
added
by
way
of
conclusion
to
the
rest
of
their
Crimes
,
that
from
the
time
that
they
first
enterd
this
Region
,
which
is
now
seventeen
years
agoe
,
they
never
ceas'd
to
send
whole
Ships
laden
with
Indian
Captives
to
the
Islands
of
St.
Martha
,
Hispaniola
,
Iamaica
,
and
St.
Iohn
,
having
sold
at
the
least
a
million
of
men
;
neither
do
they
yet
forebeare
in
this
yeare
1542.
that
abominable
practice
;
the
Royal
Council
of
the
King
taking
no
notice
thereof
:
and
that
,
which
they
cannot
choose
but
see
,
they
not
onely
dissemble
,
but
suffer
and
uphold
them
that
do
it
.
And
as
for
the
rest
of
their
Crimes
and
infinite
devastations
,
which
they
spread
all
along
this
part
of
the
Continent
,
for
a
matter
of
400.
miles
in
length
,
together
with
Venecuela
which
is
under
their
jurisdiction
,
they
shut
their
eyes
,
when
they
might
have
remedi'd
them
.
The
reason
why
they
did
captivate
the
Indians
was
onely
this
;
out
of
a
perverse
,
obstinate
and
blinde
desire
of
heaping
up
Gold
and
riches
,
which
is
common
to
all
that
have
gone
into
America
.
For
these
quiet
lambes
,
they
drew
them
by
violence
out
of
their
houses
,
carrying
them
,
together
with
their
wives
and
children
into
Captivity
,
afflicting
them
in
those
horrid
manners
as
abovesaid
,
and
burning
them
with
the
marke
of
Slaves
.
Of
the
Provinces
of
the
Country
of
Florida
.
INto
these
Countries
there
went
two
several
Tyrants
at
several
times
,
from
the
year
1510.
or
eleven
,
that
they
might
perpetrate
the
same
abominable
actions
as
the
rest
had
done
;
that
by
the
blood
and
destruction
of
the
people
,
they
might
obtaine
Offices
and
dignities
which
they
were
no
way
worthy
of
.
But
at
length
they
were
taken
away
by
an
evil
death
,
the
houses
also
which
they
had
built
them
(
this
I
witnesse
of
all
the
three
)
at
the
cost
of
humane
blood
perish'd
with
them
,
the
memory
of
them
vanishing
from
the
face
of
the
Earth
,
as
if
they
had
never
been
.
They
left
these
Countries
very
much
troubled
and
confused
,
having
incurr'd
no
small
infamy
by
reason
of
the
Crimes
which
they
committed
,
though
they
were
not
many
:
for
God
cut
them
off
at
the
beginning
,
leaving
the
revenge
of
those
evils
,
which
I
know
,
and
have
seen
done
in
the
Indies
,
to
be
poured
forth
upon
this
place
.
Of
the
fourth
Tyrant
that
came
well
instructed
lately
in
the
yeare
1538.
we
have
had
no
news
these
three
yeares
.
This
we
are
sure
of
,
that
at
the
beginning
he
carried
himselfe
very
cruelly
;
and
if
he
be
alive
,
most
assuredly
he
hath
destroy'd
an
infinite
number
of
people
;
for
he
among
all
those
who
have
done
most
mischeife
in
ruining
both
Provinces
and
Kingdoms
,
is
famous
for
his
Savage
fury
;
wherefore
I
am
apt
to
believe
that
God
hath
put
the
same
end
to
his
life
,
as
to
the
others
.
Three
or
four
years
after
these
things
happened
which
I
have
related
,
the
other
Tyrant
that
went
along
with
him
who
there
ended
his
dayes
,
departed
out
of
that
Country
;
whose
cruelties
and
rapines
while
the
chiefe
Captaine
liv'd
,
and
after
his
death
were
so
many
,
as
we
since
understood
,
that
what
we
said
before
,
may
still
stand
for
an
Axiom
,
that
the
further
they
went
,
the
more
exorbitant
was
their
fury
and
iniquity
.
But
because
it
is
so
irksome
to
me
to
rehearse
these
Execrable
and
bloody
acts
not
of
men
but
of
beasts
,
I
will
no
longer
dwell
upon
them
,
but
go
to
those
things
which
followed
after
.
They
found
a
numerous
people
,
wise
and
well
moralliz'd
,
over
whom
they
exercis'd
their
wonted
tyrannies
,
seeking
to
strike
an
awe
and
dread
into
them
,
with
the
anguish
and
the
burdens
wherewith
they
oppressed
them
.
And
if
they
fainted
by
the
way
,
they
would
not
take
the
pains
to
open
the
fetters
,
but
came
to
the
fainting
person
,
and
cut
off
his
head
or
his
hands
,
and
so
left
them
.
Once
entring
into
a
certaine
Village
,
they
were
with
great
joy
and
exultation
received
by
the
Spaniards
,
who
gave
them
provision
till
they
were
satisfied
,
allowing
them
also
six
hundred
Indians
to
carry
their
burdens
,
and
to
look
to
their
horses
.
But
the
Spaniards
being
departed
,
a
certain
Captain
,
of
Kin
to
the
chiefe
Tyrant
,
returned
to
spoile
them
that
mistrusted
nothing
;
who
there
slew
the
King
of
the
Province
with
his
Lance
,
and
committed
many
other
cruelties
.
In
another
Village
,
whose
Inhabitants
seem'd
to
be
more
vigilant
,
by
reason
of
the
horrid
iniquities
which
,
as
they
heard
,
the
Spaniards
were
wont
to
commit
,
they
put
all
to
the
sword
,
young
and
old
,
little
and
great
,
Lord
and
subject
,
sparing
none
that
came
in
their
way
.
The
chief
Tyrant
,
with
a
nose
and
lips
down
to
his
beard
,
having
call'd
together
a
great
number
of
Indians
,
reported
to
have
been
about
two
hundred
,
caused
them
all
to
have
their
members
lopt
off
,
leaving
them
in
this
sad
and
painful
condition
,
the
blood
streaming
forth
,
to
be
witness●s
of
the
mercy
of
these
persons
baptiz'd
in
the
Catholike
Faith
.
Now
let
us
judge
of
the
love
which
such
kinde
of
men
beare
toward
Christianity
,
or
after
what
manner
they
beleeve
in
God
,
whom
they
boast
to
be
good
and
just
,
and
whose
Law
is
without
blemish
.
Most
pernicious
have
been
the
evils
committed
by
these
wicked
men
,
the
sons
of
perdition
.
At
length
this
wretched
Captaine
dyed
without
any
repentance
▪
neither
can
we
doubt
but
that
he
now
lies
fetter'd
in
the
shades
of
Hell
,
unlesse
God
of
his
infinite
mercy
and
goodnesse
,
not
according
to
his
deserts
,
have
taken
compassion
on
him
.
Of
the
River
of
Plate
,
or
the
Silver
River
.
ABout
the
yeares
one
thousand
five
hundred
and
two
or
three
,
some
four
or
five
Captaines
undertook
a
journey
to
the
River
of
Plate
,
which
containes
many
Provinces
and
Countries
,
which
flourish
with
people
very
rational
,
and
of
handsome
dispositions
.
In
general
we
can
say
that
they
did
there
commit
many
horrid
mischiefes
and
execrable
murders
.
But
being
at
a
very
great
distance
from
those
Indians
,
of
whom
we
have
talked
more
at
large
,
we
can
relate
nothing
singular
or
particular
;
onely
we
doe
not
question
,
but
they
do
employ
themselves
in
the
same
works
of
darknesse
as
hath
been
hitherto
practised
in
divers
other
places
;
for
they
are
Spaniards
still
,
and
many
of
them
the
very
same
who
were
present
at
the
other
Massacres
,
and
having
the
same
intention
to
become
rich
and
potent
,
which
they
cannot
obtaine
but
by
the
same
courses
as
they
formerly
took
,
following
the
bloody
footsteps
of
those
who
have
already
destroyed
and
slain
so
many
Indians
.
After
I
had
written
what
I
have
above
mentioned
,
it
hath
been
related
to
me
for
certaine
,
that
they
have
depopulated
and
laid
waste
many
Provinces
and
Kingdoms
in
those
Regions
,
rendring
themselves
so
much
the
more
exquisite
and
devilish
in
their
oppressions
,
slaughters
,
and
massacres
of
those
people
,
by
how
much
they
are
at
a
farther
and
more
convenient
distance
from
Spaine
;
and
laying
aside
all
thoughts
of
Justice
,
which
indeed
was
never
practis'd
in
those
Regions
of
America
,
as
doth
sufficiently
appeare
by
what
we
have
above
writtrn
.
Among
all
the
Enormities
which
shall
follow
after
,
this
one
was
read
in
the
Councel
.
A
certain
Gouernour
had
given
in
charge
to
his
souldiers
,
that
into
whatever
Village
they
came
that
should
deny
them
provision
,
that
they
should
there
put
all
the
Inhabitants
to
the
sword
.
Upon
which
Warrant
the
souldiers
went
,
and
because
the
Indians
would
not
submit
to
them
as
to
enemies
,
fearing
rather
to
come
into
their
sight
,
then
that
their
Liberality
or
Store
would
be
defective
,
they
immediatly
put
to
the
sword
above
5000.
of
them
.
A
certain
number
of
men
also
living
in
peace
,
offer'd
their
service
to
them
;
they
afterwards
were
by
chance
summon'd
by
the
Governour
,
and
because
they
came
not
so
suddenly
as
his
fury
expected
,
he
thereupon
commanded
that
they
should
be
delivered
to
those
Indians
that
were
their
enemies
.
With
tears
and
outcries
they
beseeched
him
that
he
would
rather
permit
them
to
die
by
their
hands
,
then
deliver
them
up
to
the
mercy
of
their
foes
;
and
when
they
would
not
come
out
of
the
houses
where
they
were
,
they
were
all
torne
lim-meale
,
crying
out
,
and
saying
,
We
come
in
peace
to
serve
you
,
and
you
now
kill
us
,
may
our
blood
sprinkled
upon
these
walls
be
a
testimony
of
our
unjust
death
,
and
of
your
cruelty
.
Certainly
this
was
a
deed
not
only
to
be
bemoaned
,
but
also
to
be
bewaild
and
pity'd
.
Of
the
great
Kingdomes
,
and
large
Provinces
of
Peru.
IN
the
yeare
1531.
a
great
Helluo
and
devourer
of
men
went
into
the
Kingdoms
of
Peru
,
upon
the
same
pretences
,
and
with
the
same
intention
as
the
rest
;
and
being
one
of
those
who
had
been
present
at
the
murders
and
slaughters
committed
in
other
places
,
in
the
year
1510.
therefore
he
proceeded
with
a
greater
hardnesse
of
heart
in
his
outrages
and
robberies
;
and
being
a
man
of
no
faith
or
truth
,
he
laid
waste
Cities
and
Villages
,
slaying
all
the
Inhabitants
;
and
was
the
cause
of
all
those
mischiefes
that
followed
afterward
in
those
Kingdomes
;
to
undertake
the
Narration
of
which
,
and
to
represent
them
all
to
the
Reader
,
is
a
thing
impossible
,
until
they
shall
perfectly
and
clearly
appear
at
the
day
of
judgement
before
all
men
.
And
for
my selfe
,
I
doe
confesse
,
should
I
goe
about
to
describe
the
deformity
,
the
quality
and
circumstances
of
their
actions
,
it
would
be
a
task
too
difficult
for
me
.
At
his
first
enterance
he
wasted
certain
Villages
,
and
plundred
the
Country
of
a
great
quantity
of
Gold
:
And
one
time
coming
into
an
Island
adjoyning
to
these
Regions
,
which
was
known
by
the
name
of
Pagna
,
being
a
fertile
Island
and
full
of
people
:
he
was
receiv'd
by
the
Prince
and
the
inhabitants
thereof
as
if
he
had
been
an
Angel
sent
from
heaven
.
But
after
that
six
months
were
past
,
in
which
time
the
Spaniards
had
consum'd
all
their
provision
,
they
then
brought
forth
the
corn
which
they
had
reserv'd
against
times
of
barrennesse
for
themselves
their
wives
and
children
,
in
places
under
the
ground
,
offering
it
to
them
with
tears
in
their
eyes
,
desiring
them
to
do
what
pleas'd
them
with
it
.
But
they
ill
rewarded
them
in
the
end
,
killing
a
very
great
number
of
them
with
their
swords
and
lances
,
and
those
whom
they
took
alive
they
carri'd
away
into
Captivity
,
emptying
and
destroying
the
Country
,
with
many
other
cruelties
.
From
thence
they
went
to
the
Island
of
Tumbala
,
which
is
situated
in
the
Continent
,
where
he
kill'd
all
that
fell
into
his
power
;
and
because
the
people
being
astonished
at
their
barbarism
fled
away
from
them
,
they
accus'd
them
of
Rebellion
against
the
King
of
Spain
.
This
Tyrant
us'd
also
this
kind
of
subtilty
toward
the
Indians
.
He
commanded
those
whom
he
took
,
and
others
which
brought
him
presents
,
still
to
bring
him
more
,
till
he
saw
that
they
were
quite
destitute
;
telling
them
that
he
recev'd
them
now
as
Vassals
and
Subjects
of
the
king
of
Spain
;
flattering
them
also
and
telling
them
that
he
would
neither
take
them
,
nor
do
them
any
other
injury
.
As
though
it
had
been
a
thing
lawful
for
him
to
rob
&
spoile
them
,
and
to
terrifie
them
with
such
kinde
of
strange
news
before
he
had
receiv'd
them
into
the
protection
of
the
King
of
Spain
;
or
as
if
after
he
had
so
receiv'd
them
to
protection
,
he
had
never
done
any
injury
or
laid
any
oppression
upon
them
.
After
this
the
King
and
Supreame
Emperour
of
all
these
Regions
,
Acaliba
by
name
,
brought
against
the
Spainards
a
great
power
of
pittiful
naked
Creatures
,
and
arm'd
with
most
ridiculous
weapons
,
not
knowing
the
sharpnesse
of
the
Spanish
Swords
and
Lances
,
nor
the
strength
of
their
Horses
;
to
the
place
where
they
lay
approach'd
the
Spaniards
,
who
certainly
would
rob
the
devils
of
Gold
if
they
had
it
;
This
King
resolv'd
to
call
the
Spaniards
to
an
account
,
for
the
slaughters
of
his
people
,
the
destruction
of
his
Country
,
&
the
robberies
which
they
committed
upon
his
Treasures
.
But
the
Spaniards
met
him
,
kill'd
an
infinite
number
of
his
people
,
and
seiz'd
upon
his
person
,
which
was
carried
in
a
kind
of
Litter
.
Now
they
come
to
Capitulations
about
his
redemption
;
He
promises
ten
millions
of
Crowns
,
and
numbers
down
fifteen
;
they
promis'd
to
release
him
,
but
never
stood
to
their
words
,
falsifying
all
the
protestations
which
they
made
to
the
King
;
telling
him
how
that
his
Subjects
were
gathered
together
again
by
his
command
.
To
whom
the
King
made
answer
,
that
there
could
not
be
a
leafe
of
a
tree
moved
without
his
will
and
authority
;
but
if
they
were
now
assembled
anywhere
together
,
it
was
not
by
his
power
;
who
was
now
their
captive
,
for
they
might
take
away
his
life
if
they
pleas'd
.
Notwithstanding
all
which
they
consulted
whether
they
should
burn
him
alive
or
no
,
which
sentence
they
afterwards
passed
;
but
by
the
intreaty
of
some
,
that
sentence
was
mitigated
and
he
was
commanded
to
be
strangled
.
The
King
understanding
that
he
was
to
dye
,
spake
to
them
in
these
words
;
Why
do
you
kill
me
?
Did
you
not
promise
to
set
me
at
liberty
,
so
I
would
give
you
Gold
?
I
gave
it
you
,
and
more
then
you
requir'd
;
yet
if
it
be
your
will
that
I
must
dye
,
send
to
your
King
of
Spain
:
But
ere
he
could
utter
more
,
the
flames
prevented
him
.
Consider
here
the
equity
of
this
war
,
the
Captivity
of
this
Prince
,
the
sentence
of
his
condemnation
,
and
the
execution
of
that
sentence
,
the
conscience
of
the
Spaniards
,
which
nothing
deterr'd
them
from
consuming
and
taking
away
by
violence
the
great
Treasures
of
this
great
King
and
of
his
Nobles
,
how
they
all
concur
to
aggravate
their
devillish
iniquity
.
Concerning
the
foule
and
enormous
cruelties
wherewith
they
wholly
extirpated
the
people
of
these
Regions
,
I
will
here
relate
a
few
,
seen
by
a
Friar
of
the
Order
of
St.
Francis
,
and
confirm'd
and
committed
to
writing
under
his
own
hand
and
seale
,
and
disperc'd
not
onely
in
these
Provinces
,
but
in
the
Kingdome
of
Castile
.
A
copy
of
which
I
can
produce
signed
with
his
own
hand
,
wherein
these
things
following
are
contain'd
.
I
Brother
Mark
of
Cilicia
,
of
the
Order
of
St.
Francis
,
cheif
Governour
of
all
the
Brotherhood
of
that
Order
,
in
the
Provinces
of
Peru
,
being
one
of
the
first
religious
persons
that
went
into
those
parts
,
speak
this
for
a
certain
truth
,
testifying
those
things
which
I
have
seen
,
and
which
properly
concern
the
inhabitants
of
these
Countries
.
First
I
am
an
eye-witnesse
,
and
do
affirme
upon
my
knowledge
that
the
inhabitants
of
Perue
were
a
Nation
very
courteous
,
affable
,
and
loving
to
the
Spaniards
;
and
I
have
seen
Presents
of
Gold
,
Silver
,
and
precious
Stones
,
given
by
those
people
to
the
Spaniards
in
great
abundance
,
besides
many
other
offices
of
service
which
they
daily
did
for
them
.
Neither
did
the
Indians
ever
move
war
till
they
were
forc'd
to
it
by
the
contumelies
and
injuries
of
the
Spaniards
:
But
on
the
contrary
,
the
Spaniards
being
received
by
them
with
all
the
shews
of
respect
and
freindship
,
were
continually
furnish't
both
with
men
and
women
for
their
service
.
I
am
also
a
witnesse
,
that
upon
no
occasion
given
them
by
the
Indians
the
Spaniards
did
enter
their
Country
,
and
burnt
to
death
their
great
Emperour
call'd
Ataliba
,
after
they
had
receiv'd
from
him
as
a
ransome
from
his
captivity
above
two
millions
of
Gold
;
His
whole
Kingdome
having
submitted
themselves
to
him
without
any
resistance
:
With
the
same
cruelty
was
Cochilimacha
his
Captain
General
put
to
death
,
who
came
with
other
Noble
men
of
the
Country
to
the
Spaniards
in
peace
.
The
same
Fate
also
follow'd
another
potent
Lord
of
the
Province
of
Quitonia
,
whom
they
also
burnt
without
any
occasion
given
,
or
injury
done
them
:
As
unjustly
did
they
burne
also
Schapera
,
Prince
of
the
Canaries
:
They
also
burnt
the
feet
for
Aloides
the
most
potent
Lord
in
all
the
Provinces
of
Quitonia
,
afflicting
him
with
many
other
torments
to
make
him
confesse
where
the
Gold
of
Ataliba
lay
,
though
as
afterwards
it
appear'd
,
he
knew
nothing
of
it
.
They
also
kill'd
Quitonius
Cocopagauga
,
Governour
of
all
the
Provinces
of
Quitonia
,
who
at
the
importunities
of
Sebastian
Barnaclacanus
Captain
of
the
Governour
came
in
peace
to
the
Spaniards
,
because
he
could
not
give
them
the
sum
which
they
demanded
;
thus
they
put
to
death
divers
other
of
the
Noblemen
of
the
Country
;
and
as
I
understand
,
it
is
the
intention
of
the
Spaniards
not
to
leave
one
of
the
Lords
and
Noblemen
of
that
place
alive
.
I
do
also
affirme
that
I
have
seen
the
Spaniards
for
no
other
cause
,
but
to
satisfie
their
own
wills
,
dismember
the
Indians
both
men
and
women
,
cutting
off
their
eares
,
noses
,
and
hands
,
and
that
in
so
many
places
and
regions
,
that
it
would
be
a
tedious
thing
to
relate
them
.
I
have
also
seen
the
Spaniards
set
their
dogs
upon
the
Indians
to
devour
them
;
and
such
a
number
of
houses
and
villages
burnt
by
them
,
that
it
would
be
over
long
to
rehearse
them
:
This
is
also
a
truth
,
that
they
would
snatch
young
Infants
out
of
their
mothers
bellies
,
and
cast
them
as
far
as
they
could
throw
them
;
besides
many
other
cruelties
which
they
committed
,
which
did
not
a
little
amaze
me
,
though
they
are
too
many
to
be
numbred
.
I
do
also
affirme
that
the
Spaniards
got
together
as
many
of
the
Indians
as
possibly
they
could
croud
into
three
houses
,
and
there
,
upon
no
occasion
given
,
burnt
them
to
death
.
At
that
time
it
chanc'd
that
a
certain
Presbyter
,
by
name
Ocaena
snatch'd
an
Infant
out
of
the
fire
,
which
one
of
the
Spaniards
beholding
,
immediately
took
the
child
out
of
his
hands
,
and
threw
it
into
the
fire
;
which
Spaniard
,
the
same
day
that
he
did
this
vile
act
,
as
he
returned
to
his
Quarters
,
fell
down
dead
by
the
way
,
whom
I
perswaded
the
rest
to
leave
unburied
.
I
have
also
seen
them
send
to
the
Noblemen
and
chief
Rulers
of
the
Indians
to
come
to
them
,
engaging
to
secure
them
,
and
to
let
them
return
in
peace
;
but
when
they
came
,
they
caused
them
to
be
immediately
burnt
.
Two
they
burnt
while
I
was
present
,
one
being
the
Lord
of
Andonia
,
the
other
of
Tumbala
;
neither
could
I
by
any
perswasions
prevail
with
them
to
take
them
out
of
the
fire
;
and
this
I
speak
in
the
presence
of
God
,
and
according
to
my
own
conscience
,
that
I
never
knew
of
any
commotion
or
rebellion
raised
by
the
Indians
of
Peru
against
them
,
though
it
was
apparent
to
all
how
they
did
torment
and
massacre
them
.
Which
had
they
done
,
considering
how
the
Spaniards
broke
their
faith
and
promises
to
them
,
how
against
all
Law
and
Right
they
practis'd
nothing
else
but
their
desolation
and
destruction
,
certainly
they
had
done
well
,
chusing
rather
noble
a
death
,
then
to
endure
such
tedious
miseries
.
I
doe
also
affirme
out
of
the
mouths
of
the
Indians
themselves
,
that
greater
quantities
of
Gold
lie
hid
then
are
yet
discovered
,
which
because
of
the
cruelties
and
injustice
of
the
Spaniards
,
they
are
loath
to
reveale
,
nor
will
reveale
,
till
the
tyrannical
hand
of
the
Spaniards
shall
be
taken
off
them
,
rather
chusing
to
dye
,
as
others
have
done
.
Whereby
God
is
offended
,
and
the
Affaires
of
the
King
many
times
impeded
:
For
he
hath
been
defrauded
of
more
then
would
serve
to
maintain
Castile
,
the
recovery
of
which
cannot
be
performed
without
much
difficulty
and
large
expences
.
And
thus
far
I
have
related
the
very
words
of
this
religious
person
,
confirm'd
by
the
Bishop
of
Mexico
,
before
whom
he
justified
all
that
is
here
written
.
Here
we
must
consider
these
things
to
be
such
as
this
Religious
person
was
an
eye-witnesse
of
,
having
traveld
long
in
those
parts
for
the
space
of
above
nine
or
ten
yeares
,
and
had
compassed
above
fifty
or
a
hundred
miles
of
that
Country
,
when
there
were
but
few
Spaniards
that
liv'd
in
those
parts
;
though
afterwards
to
the
noise
of
the
Gold
there
flockt
thither
above
five
thousand
,
who
scattered
themselves
through
those
large
Provinces
,
that
contain'd
in
length
above
five
or
600
miles
,
which
they
totally
laid
waste
,
committing
rather
more
and
greater
cruelties
then
they
had
done
in
any
other
Countries
;
and
to
say
truth
,
from
that
time
until
this
present
year
,
they
destroy'd
a
thousand
times
more
persons
then
he
makes
mention
of
,
and
with
lesse
feare
,
either
of
God
,
or
of
the
King
,
and
with
lesse
pity
they
massacred
the
greatest
part
of
mankind
of
those
that
inhabited
those
Regions
,
killing
above
four
millions
of
people
.
A
few
dayes
after
,
with
darts
made
of
reeds
,
they
shot
at
the
most
potent
Queen
,
who
was
the
Wife
of
Elinguus
,
in
whose
hands
the
whole
Administration
of
the
Government
of
these
Kingdomes
remain'd
,
which
occasioned
him
to
rebel
against
them
,
and
to
this
day
he
holds
out
against
them
:
At
length
they
took
his
Queen
,
and
contrary
to
all
right
and
equity
,
they
put
her
to
death
,
though
it
was
reported
that
she
was
great
with
child
,
for
no
other
cause
but
that
they
might
afflict
her
husband
.
But
if
I
should
goe
to
particularize
the
murders
and
slaughters
committed
in
that
Region
,
the
Reader
would
finde
them
so
horrid
and
so
numerous
,
that
in
both
respects
they
would
far
exceed
what
hath
been
said
touching
the
other
parts
of
India
.
Of
the
New
Kingdome
of
GRANATA
.
IN
the
yeare
1539.
many
of
these
Tyrants
departing
from
Venecuela
,
Santa
Martha
and
Carthagena
,
met
together
to
make
a
Conquest
of
Peru.
And
many
others
comming
out
of
the
same
Regions
,
having
a
desire
to
make
a
further
Progress
,
they
found
many
pleasant
Countries
,
about
some
300.
miles
from
Carthagena
,
&
divers
gallant
Provinces
,
well
stored
with
courteous
and
affable
Inhabitants
like
to
other
places
in
India
,
abounding
also
in
Gold
and
Precious
Stones
,
which
are
called
Emraulds
;
which
Provinces
by
a
new
name
they
called
New
Granata
,
because
that
the
Tyrant
that
first
came
into
these
parts
was
borne
in
the
Kingdome
of
Granata
.
And
because
those
that
robb'd
and
spoil'd
these
Countries
,
were
cruel
men
,
and
perverse
Stewards
,
famous
butchers
and
spillers
of
humane
blood
,
therefore
are
their
diabolical
actions
so
great
and
so
many
,
that
they
farre
surpassed
those
which
were
done
before
them
in
other
Countries
,
of
which
,
some
of
the
most
select
ones
I
will
rehearse
.
A
certain
Governour
,
because
he
that
destroy'd
those
parts
would
not
admit
him
to
share
with
him
in
his
gettings
,
made
certain
Inquisitions
and
proofes
,
which
he
got
prov'd
by
many
witnesses
,
by
which
are
apparent
the
murders
and
homicides
which
the
other
committed
;
in
the
committing
whereof
he
perseveres
unto
this
day
;
There
were
read
in
the
Councel
,
and
stand
these
recorded
.
In
the
said
Examinations
the
witnesses
depose
,
that
when
all
these
Kingdomes
were
peaceful
,
the
Indians
serv'd
the
Spaniards
,
getting
their
living
by
painful
labours
in
the
tillage
of
the
Earth
,
bringing
them
what
quantity
of
Gold
or
Gems
they
had
or
could
get
,
having
also
divided
their
houses
and
their
habitations
among
them
,
of
which
they
are
not
a
little
covetous
,
as
being
a
means
for
them
to
obtain
their
Gold
the
more
easily
.
But
when
all
the
Indians
were
labouring
under
their
accustomed
tyranny
,
the
Chief
Captain
and
Tyrant
of
the
Spaniards
took
the
King
and
Lord
of
the
Country
,
and
kept
him
a
prisoner
for
the
space
of
six
or
seven
moneths
,
for
no
other
reason
then
to
squeez
from
him
what
Gold
and
precious
Stones
he
could
.
The
said
King
,
whose
name
was
Bogata
,
through
fear
promised
him
that
he
would
give
him
a
golden
house
,
hoping
by
that
meanes
to
be
set
at
liberty
;
and
so
he
sent
his
Indians
,
who
brought
back
great
sums
of
Gold
and
Precious
Stones
.
But
because
the
King
gave
them
not
a
golden
house
,
therefore
they
told
him
that
he
must
be
put
to
death
,
because
he
did
not
stand
to
his
word
.
Whereupon
the
Tyrant
commanded
that
he
should
be
brought
before
him
;
and
thus
they
presum'd
to
call
to
judgement
one
of
the
greatest
Kings
of
the
Land
.
Whereupon
sentence
was
given
that
hee
should
be
tormented
,
because
he
had
not
given
the
gold'n
house
.
Whereupon
they
tortur'd
him
,
dropping
hot
sope
upon
his
belly
;
then
they
fetterd
his
two
feet
to
two
posts
or
stakes
,
and
bound
his
neck
to
another
;
then
two
men
holding
his
hands
,
they
set
fire
to
his
feet
,
the
Tyrant
comming
now
and
then
to
him
,
and
threatning
death
to
him
,
unlesse
that
he
would
tell
them
where
his
treasure
lay
;
But
that
could
not
be
done
,
for
with
torments
they
soon
ended
his
life
.
Which
things
,
while
they
were
doing
,
the
displeasure
of
Heaven
fell
upon
the
City
for
their
sakes
,
whereby
it
was
immediately
consum'd
with
fire
.
The
other
Captaines
of
the
Spaniards
,
resolving
to
walk
in
their
Leaders
footsteps
,
because
they
knew
no
Art
but
that
of
dismembring
the
poor
people
,
were
not
less
guilty
of
the
same
crimes
,
with
divers
and
most
horrible
torments
afflicting
both
the
Nobles
and
the
Commonaly
which
submitted
themselves
unto
them
,
though
they
would
faine
have
bought
their
peace
with
great
presents
both
of
Gold
and
Precious
Stones
.
They
tormented
them
onely
that
they
might
obtaine
from
them
the
greater
Sums
of
Gold
and
Silver
;
and
thus
all
the
Noble
Blood
of
that
Country
was
spilt
in
a
most
barbarous
and
shameful
manner
.
One
time
it
happend
that
a
certain
number
of
the
Indians
,
full
of
innocence
and
simplicity
,
came
to
proffer
their
service
to
the
Spanish
Captain
;
But
while
they
thought
themselves
safe
under
the
protection
of
their
own
humility
,
a
Captain
at
that
instant
came
to
the
City
where
they
serv'd
their
Masters
,
who
,
after
he
had
sup'd
,
commanded
all
the
Indians
,
who
were
sleeping
and
resting
from
the
hardnesse
of
their
labours
,
to
be
all
put
to
the
sword
.
Which
slaughter
he
made
with
intention
to
make
himselfe
the
more
dreadful
to
all
the
Country
.
Once
the
Captain
commanded
all
the
Spaniards
that
they
should
bring
forth
as
many
of
the
Indian
Lords
or
common
people
,
as
they
had
in
their
houses
,
into
a
publick
place
,
and
there
kill
them
;
and
thus
they
slew
above
four
or
five
hundred
men
.
This
the
witnesses
affirme
of
a
certain
particular
Tyrant
,
that
he
exercis'd
very
great
cruelties
,
by
cutting
off
the
hands
,
noses
,
and
feet
both
of
men
and
women
.
Another
time
it
happend
that
the
chief
Captain
sent
an
Officer
into
the
Province
of
Bogata
,
to
enquire
who
had
succeeded
the
Prince
that
was
so
cruelly
murdered
;
who
riding
many
miles
into
the
Country
,
took
the
Indians
captive
,
cutting
off
the
hands
and
ears
of
many
of
them
,
onely
because
they
would
not
tell
who
was
their
Kings
Successor
;
others
they
threw
to
their
dogs
to
be
torn
to
pieces
;
and
thus
they
kill'd
and
destroy'd
great
numbers
of
the
Indians
in
these
parts
.
Upon
a
certain
day
,
about
the
fourth
watch
of
the
night
,
they
fell
upon
many
Princes
,
Peers
,
and
other
men
who
thought
themselves
in
safety
;
for
the
Spaniards
had
made
promise
to
them
that
they
should
not
receive
any
injury
;
upon
which
promise
they
came
out
of
their
lurking
holes
in
the
mountaines
,
returning
without
any
fear
or
suspition
to
their
houses
;
all
these
this
Tyrant
took
,
and
causing
them
to
lay
their
hands
upon
the
ground
,
with
his
own
sword
cut
them
off
,
telling
them
that
he
would
chastise
them
for
not
declaring
where
their
King
was
.
Another
time
,
because
the
Indians
did
not
bring
a
chest
of
Gold
to
the
Captain
which
he
required
,
he
therefore
sent
forces
to
make
war
upon
them
,
in
which
war
so
many
were
slain
,
so
many
dismembred
,
that
the
number
was
hardly
to
be
reckond
;
besides
others
that
they
cast
to
their
dogs
,
bred
up
and
fed
with
humane
flesh
,
who
were
immediately
devoured
by
them
.
Another
time
the
Inhabitants
of
another
Province
,
seeing
that
they
had
murderd
about
four
or
five
of
their
chief
Princes
and
Rulers
,
fled
in
fear
to
a
certain
mountain
for
shelter
against
their
inhumane
enemies
,
where
there
were
got
together
above
foure
or
five
thousand
Indians
,
as
hath
been
proved
by
witnesses
:
But
the
Captain
,
or
Governour
of
the
Spaniards
,
sent
a
notorious
Tyrant
with
a
company
of
Souldiers
to
reduce
,
as
he
said
,
those
rebellious
Indians
,
that
had
fled
from
their
slaughters
and
cruelties
;
and
to
chastise
them
for
it
,
as
if
they
had
done
an
unlawful
action
;
or
as
if
punishment
had
been
due
to
the
Indians
,
and
not
rather
more
deserved
by
themselves
,
to
have
bin
us'd
without
all
pity
,
who
had
shewd
themselves
so
mercilesse
to
others
.
The
Spaniards
scale
this
Mountain
by
force
,
for
the
Indians
were
weak
and
unarmed
,
telling
them
that
they
desired
peace
if
they
would
lay
down
their
Armes
;
whereupon
they
all
immediately
threw
away
their
weapons
,
which
when
the
chief
Tyrant
beheld
,
he
sent
to
certain
of
the
Spaniards
to
possesse
themselves
of
the
cheife
places
of
strength
in
the
Mountaine
;
and
then
commanded
them
to
fall
upon
the
Indians
.
Whereupon
they
fall
upon
them
as
Wolves
or
Lyons
fall
upon
a
flock
of
sheep
,
till
they
were
wearied
with
murdering
;
but
they
had
no
sooner
taken
breath
,
but
he
commanded
them
again
to
renew
their
fury
,
and
caus'd
them
to
precipitate
the
rest
which
were
remaining
from
the
top
of
the
Rock
which
was
very
high
and
steep
.
And
the
witnesses
affirm
that
they
have
seen
a
cloud
of
Indians
falling
down
from
the
Mountain
,
which
were
all
bruis'd
to
peices
.
And
to
finish
his
cruel
enterprise
,
he
caus'd
the
Indians
that
had
hid
themselves
among
the
thickets
to
be
searched
out
and
put
to
the
sword
,
and
then
thrown
down
from
the
tops
of
the
high
mountaines
.
And
not
satiated
with
these
cruelties
,
that
their
horrible
abominations
might
be
the
more
notorious
,
he
gave
command
that
all
the
Indians
that
were
reserv'd
alive
should
be
kept
by
his
particular
souldiers
as
their
slaves
,
a
custome
which
they
constantly
observed
;
as
for
the
women
,
those
excepted
whom
they
thought
most
fit
for
their
service
,
they
were
all
thrust
together
into
a
house
made
of
straw
and
there
burnt
to
death
,
to
the
number
of
above
four
or
five
hundred
.
The
same
Tyrant
came
to
the
City
of
Cota
where
he
took
an
infinite
sight
of
people
,
and
cast
fifteen
or
sixteen
of
the
Nobles
and
Lords
of
the
Kingdom
to
his
dogs
,
cutting
of
the
hands
of
many
of
the
Indians
both
men
and
women
,
which
he
hung
upon
a
perch
for
the
Indians
to
behold
;
in
this
manner
were
seen
hung
together
above
seventy
paire
of
hands
.
This
is
also
to
be
added
that
they
cut
off
the
noses
both
of
Infants
and
their
Mothers
.
No
man
can
rehearse
the
cruelties
committed
by
this
man
,
the
enemy
of
God
;
They
are
innumerable
,
neither
heard
of
nor
seen
before
,
especially
those
committed
in
Guatimala
,
which
were
their
chiefe
masterpeices
in
this
art
of
destruction
which
they
have
been
so
long
practising
.
The
witnesses
do
moreover
adde
this
,
that
the
cruelties
and
slaughters
committed
in
the
said
new
Kingdome
of
Granata
by
the
said
Captain
and
his
accomplices
the
destroyers
and
Abaddons
of
mankinde
,
who
are
with
him
,
and
to
whom
he
gives
the
power
to
exercise
these
strange
abominations
,
are
so
many
and
so
great
,
that
if
his
Majesty
do
not
stop
the
deluge
of
evils
which
they
bring
along
with
them
(
for
the
slaughters
of
the
Indians
are
made
onely
through
the
desire
of
their
Gold
,
though
it
be
all
in
their
own
hands
already
)
in
a
very
short
time
the
Kingdom
will
be
ruin'd
&
laid
desolate
,
and
the
land
when
all
the
Inhabitants
are
destroy'd
must
of
necessity
lie
untill'd
.
In
this
place
we
must
noe
passe
by
a
most
pernicious
cruelty
of
these
Tyrants
which
was
so
violent
,
that
in
the
space
of
two
or
three
years
(
for
no
longer
time
there
was
between
the
desolation
and
the
discovery
of
this
Kingdom
which
was
the
most
populous
Country
in
the
whole
World
)
they
totally
ruin'd
and
depopulated
the
whole
Country
,
shewing
themselves
so
void
of
compassion
,
so
empty
of
grace
,
so
regardlesse
of
the
Kings
honour
,
that
they
had
not
left
a
person
living
,
had
not
his
Majesty
a
little
stopt
the
current
of
their
cruelty
:
which
I
the
more
easily
believe
,
because
I
have
seen
my selfe
in
a
few
dayes
several
great
Kingdomes
and
Countries
destroy'd
and
desolate
.
There
are
some
large
Provinces
adjoyning
to
the
Kingdom
of
new
Granata
which
are
call'd
Popagan
and
Cali
,
and
three
or
four
others
which
stretch
themselves
in
length
above
500.
miles
,
which
they
destroy'd
in
the
same
manner
as
they
did
the
other
,
and
by
their
foresaid
Massacres
brought
down
to
the
lowest
degree
of
desolation
,
and
this
some
who
return'd
out
of
these
Countries
&
came
to
us
relate
;
But
if
there
were
ever
any
thing
to
be
bewailed
by
man
,
they
were
the
stories
which
they
told
of
large
Cities
ruin'd
and
buried
in
their
own
ashes
;
scarce
fifty
houses
remaining
where
before
there
were
above
a
thousand
,
or
two
thousand
;
and
the
sad
narrations
which
they
brought
,
of
large
Countries
and
Regions
that
lay
desolate
and
spoil'd
of
their
inhabitants
.
At
length
there
went
out
of
the
Kingdomes
of
Perne
through
the
Country
of
Quitonia
into
the
Regions
of
Granata
and
Popaganum
,
many
very
cruel
Tyrants
,
who
march'd
through
the
Carthagenians
,
and
Vrabia
,
to
reach
Calisium
,
while
others
stay'd
to
assaile
Quitonium
it selfe
.
But
these
at
length
joyn'd
together
,
depopulating
above
sixe
hundred
miles
in
length
,
with
an
infinite
waste
of
men
,
to
the
remainder
whereof
they
are
at
present
no
lesse
cruel
.
And
thus
what
I
set
down
as
a
rule
,
still
holds
good
,
that
the
violence
and
cruelty
of
the
Spaniards
,
by
continuance
still
waxed
more
and
more
furious
and
bloody
.
But
among
all
these
Crimes
,
which
are
onely
worthy
of
fire
and
sword
,
that
have
been
perpetrated
in
these
Countries
,
this
which
followes
is
worthy
the
taking
notice
of
.
When
the
heate
of
Massacring
and
killing
is
over
,
they
carry
captive
away
sometimes
two
hundred
,
sometimes
three
hundred
men
apeice
;
and
when
their
master
pleases
,
he
commands
a
hundred
at
a
time
to
be
brought
before
him
,
to
whom
when
they
come
like
meek
and
patient
lambs
,
he
commands
thirty
or
forty
of
them
to
be
put
to
death
;
telling
the
rest
that
thus
they
shall
all
be
us'd
unlesse
they
prove
diligent
in
his
service
.
Consider
I
beseech
you
,
all
that
read
,
or
shall
read
these
few
papers
,
whether
an
act
so
horrible
,
so
detestable
,
so
inhumane
,
do
not
exceed
all
the
iniquities
and
cruelties
that
the
imagination
of
man
can
comprehend
;
and
whether
such
Spaniards
may
not
be
deservedly
called
Devils
;
or
whether
it
be
not
a
thing
almost
indifferent
whether
the
Indians
should
be
in
the
hands
of
Spaniards
,
or
of
the
Infernal
spirits
.
Neither
will
I
forget
to
relate
one
barbarou's
action
,
which
as
I
think
doth
exceed
the
cruelty
of
beasts
.
The
Spaniards
which
are
among
the
Indians
do
breed
up
a
sort
of
fierce
dogs
,
which
they
teach
and
instruct
to
fall
upon
the
Indians
and
devour
them
.
Now
let
all
men
,
judge
whether
Christians
or
Turks
,
in
this
it
much
imports
not
,
whether
so
much
cruelty
ever
peirc'd
their
eares
before
.
These
dogs
they
take
along
with
them
in
all
their
expeditions
,
carrying
also
divers
Indians
in
chaines
for
the
sustenance
of
those
dogs
.
And
it
was
a
common
thing
for
them
to
say
one
to
another
;
Give
me
a
quarter
of
your
Indian
for
my
dogs
,
and
too
morrow
when
I
bill
one
I
will
pay
it
you
again
;
As
if
they
were
no
more
to
be
accounted
of
then
the
offals
of
a
hog
or
sheep
.
Others
were
wont
to
go
a
hunting
in
the
morning
,
and
being
ask'd
how
they
had
sped
:
Oh
very
well
reply'd
the
other
,
my
dogs
have
kill'd
fifteen
or
sixteen
Indians
this
morning
;
These
have
been
all
proved
in
the
impeachments
made
by
one
Tyrant
against
another
.
Could
there
be
any
thing
more
horrible
or
more
cruel
?
But
I
will
here
stay
,
until
there
shall
come
news
of
greater
impieties
(
if
greater
there
can
be
)
or
till
we
shall
return
to
behold
these
things
which
for
the
space
of
above
forty
years
we
have
already
seen
.
And
now
I
do
protest
according
to
my
conscience
and
in
the
sight
of
God
,
that
the
losses
of
the
Indians
were
so
great
,
and
so
many
their
subverted
Cities
,
the
cruelties
and
massacres
so
horrible
,
the
violences
and
iniquities
so
in
human
,
that
though
I
have
done
my
utmost
to
relate
what
I
could
,
and
to
paint
them
in
their
own
lively
colours
,
yet
have
I
not
been
able
to
rehearse
one
thing
done
among
a
thousand
,
either
as
to
the
quantity
or
the
quality
of
the
Crimes
.
And
now
that
all
true
Christians
may
be
mov'd
with
the
greater
compassion
towards
the
poor
creatures
,
that
their
losses
may
appeare
the
more
deplorable
,
that
they
may
with
a
greater
indignation
detest
the
ambition
,
cruelty
,
and
covetousness
,
of
the
Spaniards
,
to
those
which
I
have
abovesaid
,
I
will
also
adde
this
for
a
truth
,
that
,
from
the
time
America
was
first
discovered
unto
this
present
,
the
Indians
never
were
the
men
that
ever
shewed
the
least
disaffection
,
or
offer'd
the
least
injury
to
the
Spaniards
,
but
rather
ador'd
them
as
Angels
of
immortality
come
to
visit
them
from
Heaven
,
till
their
owne
actions
betrayd
them
to
a
far
worse
censure
.
This
I
will
also
adde
,
that
from
the
beginning
to
this
day
,
the
Spaniards
were
never
any
more
mindful
to
spread
the
Gospel
among
them
,
then
as
if
they
had
been
dogs
;
but
on
the
contrary
forbid
religious
persons
to
exercise
their
dutie
,
deterring
them
by
many
afflictions
and
persecutions
from
preaching
and
teaching
among
them
,
for
that
they
thought
would
have
hindered
them
in
getting
their
Gold
,
and
kept
the
people
from
their
labours
.
Neither
had
they
any
more
knowledge
of
the
God
of
Heaven
,
as
to
say
whether
he
were
of
wood
,
brasse
,
or
iron
,
then
they
had
above
a
hundred
years
before
.
New
Spaine
being
onely
excepted
,
whither
the
Religious
persons
had
most
liberty
to
go
:
So
that
they
all
dy'd
without
Faith
or
Sacraments
,
to
the
willing
destruction
of
their
souls
.
I
Frier
Bartholmew
Casaus
,
of
the
Order
of
St.
Dominic
,
who
went
to
these
parts
through
the
mercy
of
God
,
desiring
the
salvation
of
the
Indians
,
that
so
many
precious
soules
redeemd
with
the
blood
of
Christ
might
not
perish
,
but
wishing
with
my
whole
heart
,
that
they
might
through
the
knowledge
of
their
Creator
live
eternally
:
Because
of
the
care
also
and
compassion
which
I
beare
to
my
Country
,
which
is
Castile
,
fearing
lest
God
should
destroy
it
in
his
anger
for
the
sins
which
it
hath
committed
against
his
divine
Majesty
,
the
faith
and
the
honour
of
divers
great
persons
in
the
Court
of
Spaine
,
zealously
religious
,
and
who
abominate
these
bloody
and
detestable
actions
,
after
many
hinderances
of
businesse
,
did
at
length
put
an
end
to
this
brief
Tractate
at
Valentia
the
eighth
day
of
December
154●
.
when
the
Spaniards
(
though
they
were
in
some
places
more
cruel
,
in
some
places
lesse
,
after
the
end
of
all
their
torments
,
violences
,
tyrannies
,
desolations
and
oppressions
,
were
at
length
come
to
Mexico
,
which
enjoyes
a
gentler
usage
then
other
parts
;
for
there
is
an
outside
of
Justice
,
which
doth
something
restrain
their
cruelty
,
though
not
at
all
the
immoderate
tributes
which
they
lay
upon
them
.
And
now
I
have
a
real
hope
,
that
Charles
the
Fifth
our
Soveraign
Lord
and
Prince
,
Emperor
&
King
of
Spaine
,
(
to
whose
eares
the
wickednesses
and
impieties
of
these
tyrants
do
daily
come
,
which
are
committed
against
the
will
of
God
in
these
Countries
,
for
they
have
hitherto
conceal'd
these
things
from
him
)
not
lesse
subtilly
then
maliciously
,
will
extirpate
the
causes
of
so
many
evils
,
and
apply
fitting
remedies
to
the
calamities
of
this
New
World
delivered
by
God
to
him
as
to
a
Lover
of
Justice
and
Mercy
.
Which
God
we
doe
beseech
to
grant
him
happinesse
in
his
life
and
in
his
Imperial
dignity
,
and
to
bless
his
Royal
soule
with
eternal
happiness
.
Amen
.
FINIS
.
The
Historical
Relation
of
the
Spanish
Massacres
in
the
West
Indies
.