A
briefe
Narration
of
the
destruction
of
the
Indes
,
by
the
Spanyardes
.
THe
Indes
were
discouered
the
yeere
one
thousande
,
foure
hundred
,
nientie
two
,
and
inhabited
by
the
Spanish
the
yeere
next
after
ensuing
:
so
as
it
is
about
fourtie
niene
yeeres
sithens
that
the
Spaniards
some
of
them
went
into
those
partes
.
And
the
first
land
that
they
entered
to
inhabite
,
was
the
great
and
most
fertile
Isle
of
Hispaniola
,
which
contayneth
sixe
hundreth
leagues
in
compasse
.
There
are
other
great
and
infinite
Iles
rounde
about
and
in
the
confines
on
all
sides
:
which
wee
haue
seen
the
most
peopled
,
and
the
fullest
of
their
owne
natiue
people
,
as
any
other
countrey
in
the
worlde
may
be
.
The
firme
lande
lying
off
from
this
Ilande
two
hundreth
and
fiftie
leagues
,
and
some
what
ouer
at
the
most
,
contayneth
in
length
on
the
seacoast
more
then
tenne
thousande
leagues
:
which
are
alreadie
discouered
,
and
dayly
be
discouered
more
and
more
,
all
ful
of
people
,
as
an
Emmote
hill
of
Emmots
.
Insomuch
,
as
by
that
which
since
,
vnto
the
yere
the
fourtieth
and
one
hath
beene
discouered
:
It
seemeth
that
God
hath
bestowed
in
that
same
countrey
,
the
gulphe
or
the
greatest
portion
of
mankinde
.
GOD
created
all
these
innumerable
multitudes
in
euery
sorte
,
very
simple
,
without
sutteltie
,
or
craft
,
without
malice
,
very
obedient
,
and
very
faithfull
to
their
naturall
liege
Lordes
,
and
to
the
Spaniardes
,
whom
they
serue
,
very
humble
,
very
patient
,
very
desirous
of
peace
making
,
and
peacefull
,
without
brawles
and
struglings
,
without
quarrelles
,
without
strife
,
without
rancour
or
hatred
,
by
no
meanes
desirous
of
reuengement
.
They
are
also
people
very
gentle
,
and
very
tender
,
and
of
an
complexion
,
and
which
can
sustayne
no
trauell
,
and
〈◊〉
die
very
soone
of
any
disease
whatsoeuer
,
in
suche
sorte
as
the
very
children
of
Princes
and
Noble
men
brought
vp
amongst
vs
,
in
all
commodities
,
ease
,
and
delicatenesse
,
are
not
more
soft
then
those
of
that
countrey
:
yea
,
although
they
bee
the
children
of
labourers
.
They
are
also
very
poore
folke
,
which
possesse
litle
,
neither
yet
do
so
much
as
desire
to
haue
much
worldly
goodes
,
&
therefore
neither
are
they
proud
,
ambitious
,
nor
couetous
.
Their
diet
is
such
(
as
it
seemeth
)
that
of
the
holy
fathers
in
the
desert
hath
not
been
more
scarse
,
nor
more
streight
,
nor
lesse
daintie
,
nor
lesse
sumptuous
.
Their
appareling
is
commonly
to
goe
naked
:
all
saue
their
shamefast
partes
alone
couered
.
And
when
they
be
clothed
,
at
the
most
,
it
is
but
of
a
mantell
of
bombacie
of
an
elle
and
a
halfe
,
or
a
two
elles
of
linnen
square
.
Their
lodging
is
vpon
a
matte
,
and
those
which
haue
the
best
:
sleepe
as
it
were
vppon
a
net
fastened
at
the
foure
corners
,
which
they
call
in
the
language
of
the
Ile
of
Hispaniola
,
Hamasas
.
They
haue
their
vnderstanding
very
pure
and
quicke
,
being
teachable
and
capable
of
all
good
learning
,
verye
apt
to
receiue
our
holy
Catholique
faith
,
and
to
be
instructed
in
good
and
vertuous
maners
,
hauing
lesse
encombrances
and
disturbances
to
the
atteyning
there
vnto
,
then
al
the
folke
of
the
world
besids
,
and
are
so
enflamed
,
ardent
,
and
importune
to
knowe
and
vnderstand
the
matters
of
the
faith
after
they
haue
but
begunne
once
to
taste
them
,
as
likewise
the
exercise
of
the
Sacraments
of
the
Church
,
&
the
diuine
seruice
:
that
in
truth
,
the
religious
men
haue
need
of
a
singuler
patience
to
support
them
.
And
to
make
an
ende
,
I
haue
heard
many
Spaniardes
many
times
holde
this
as
assured
,
and
that
whiche
they
could
not
deny
,
concerning
the
good
nature
which
they
sawe
in
them
.
Vndoubtedly
these
folkes
shoulde
be
the
happiest
in
the
worlde
,
if
onely
they
knewe
God
.
Vpon
these
lambes
so
mecke
,
so
qualified
&
endewed
of
their
maker
and
creator
,
as
hath
bin
said
,
entred
the
Spanish
incontinent
as
they
knewe
them
,
as
wolues
,
as
lions
,
&
as
tigres
most
cruel
of
long
time
famished
:
and
haue
not
done
in
those
quarters
these
40.
yeres
be
past
,
neither
yet
doe
at
this
present
,
ought
els
saue
teare
them
in
peeces
,
kill
them
,
martyre
them
,
afflict
them
,
torment
them
,
&
destroy
them
by
straunge
sortes
of
cruelties
neuer
neither
seene
,
nor
reade
,
nor
hearde
of
the
like
(
of
the
which
some
shall
bee
set
downe
hereafter
)
so
farre
foorth
that
of
aboue
three
Millions
of
soules
that
were
in
the
Ile
of
Hispaniola
,
and
that
we
haue
seene
,
there
are
not
nowe
two
hundreth
natiues
of
the
countrey
.
The
Isle
of
Cuba
,
the
which
is
in
length
as
farre
as
from
Vallodolyd
vntil
Rome
,
is
at
this
day
as
it
were
al
wast
.
S.
Iohns
ile
,
and
that
of
Iamayca
both
of
them
very
great
,
very
fertil
,
and
very
fayre
:
are
desolate
.
Likewise
the
iles
of
Lucayos
,
neere
to
the
ile
of
Hispaniola
,
and
of
the
north
side
vnto
that
of
Cuba
,
in
number
being
aboue
threescore
Ilandes
,
together
with
those
which
they
cal
the
iles
of
Geante
,
one
with
another
,
great
and
litle
,
whereof
the
very
wurst
is
fertiler
then
the
kings
garden
at
Seuill
,
and
the
countrey
the
healthsomest
in
the
world
:
there
were
in
these
same
iles
more
then
fiue
hundreth
thousand
soules
,
and
at
this
day
there
is
not
one
only
creature
.
For
they
haue
bin
all
of
them
slayne
,
after
that
they
had
drawen
them
out
from
thence
to
labour
in
their
minerals
in
the
ile
of
Hispaniola
,
where
there
were
no
more
left
of
the
inbornes
natiues
of
that
iland
.
A
ship
riding
for
the
space
of
three
yeeres
betwixt
all
these
ilands
,
to
the
ende
,
after
the
inning
of
this
kinde
of
vintage
,
to
gleane
and
cull
the
remainder
of
these
folke
(
for
there
was
a
good
Christian
moued
with
pitie
and
compassion
,
to
conuert
&
win
vnto
Christ
such
as
might
be
found
)
there
were
not
found
but
eleuen
persons
whiche
I
saw
:
other
iles
more
then
thirtie
nere
to
the
ile
of
S.
Iohn
haue
likewise
bin
dispeopled
and
marred
.
All
these
iles
contayn
aboue
two
thousand
leagues
of
lande
,
and
are
all
dispeopled
and
laide
waste
.
As
touching
the
maine
firme
lande
,
wee
are
certaine
that
our
Spaniardes
,
by
their
cruelties
&
cursed
doings
haue
dispeopled
&
made
desolate
more
then
ten
realmes
greater
then
all
Spaine
,
comprising
also
therewith
Aragon
and
Portugall
,
and
twise
as
much
or
more
land
then
there
is
from
Seuill
to
Ierusalem
whiche
are
aboue
a
thousand
leagues
:
whiche
realmes
as
yet
vnto
this
present
day
remaine
in
a
wildernes
and
vtter
desolation
,
hauing
bin
befor
time
as
well
peopled
as
was
possible
.
We
are
able
to
yeeld
a
good
and
certaine
accompt
,
that
there
is
within
the
space
of
the
said
40.
yeeres
,
by
those
said
tyrannies
&
diulish
doings
of
the
Spaniards
●●●n
to
death
vniustly
and
tyrannously
more
then
twelue
Millions
of
soules
,
men
,
women
,
and
children
▪
And
I
verilie
do
beleeue
,
and
thinke
not
to
mistake
therein
,
that
there
are
dead
more
then
fifteene
Millions
of
soules
.
Those
whiche
haue
goe
them
out
of
Spaine
into
that
countrey
,
bearing
them selues
as
Christians
,
haue
kept
two
generall
and
principall
wayes
to
eradicate
and
abolishe
from
off
the
face
of
the
earth
those
miserable
nations
:
The
one
is
their
vniust
,
cruell
,
bloodie
and
tyrannicall
warre
.
That
other
maner
is
,
that
they
haue
slayne
all
those
which
coulde
any
kinde
of
wayes
so
muche
as
gaspe
,
breath
,
or
thinke
to
set
them selues
at
libertie
,
or
but
to
withdrawe
them selues
from
the
tormentes
whiche
they
endure
,
as
are
all
the
naturall
Lordes
,
and
the
men
of
valour
and
courage
.
For
commonly
they
suffer
not
in
the
warres
to
liue
any
,
saue
children
and
women
:
oppressing
also
afterwardes
those
very
same
with
the
most
cruel
,
dreadful
,
and
hainous
thraldome
that
euer
hath
been
layde
vpon
men
or
beastes
.
Vnto
these
two
kindes
of
tyranie
diabolicall
,
may
be
reduced
and
sorted
as
it
were
the
issues
one
vnder
another
to
their
head
,
all
other
their
diuerse
and
infinite
maners
of
dooing
which
they
keept
to
lay
desolate
,
and
roote
out
those
folke
without
number
.
The
cause
why
the
Spanishe
haue
destroyed
suche
an
instnite
of
soules
,
hath
been
onely
,
that
they
haue
helde
it
for
their
last
scope
and
marke
to
gette
golde
,
and
to
enriche
them selues
in
a
short
tyme
,
and
to
mount
at
one
leape
to
very
high
estates
,
in
no
wise
agreeable
to
their
persons
:
or
,
for
to
say
in
a
word
,
the
cause
hereof
hath
been
their
auarice
and
ambition
,
whiche
hath
seased
them
the
exceedingest
in
the
worlde
in
consideration
of
those
landes
so
happie
and
rich
,
and
the
people
so
humble
,
so
patient
,
and
so
easie
to
be
subdued
.
Whom
they
haue
neuer
had
any
respect
,
or
made
any
more
accompt
of
(
I
speake
the
trueth
of
that
whiche
I
haue
seene
all
the
tyme
that
I
was
there
conuersant
)
I
say
not
then
of
beastes
(
for
woulde
to
GOD
that
they
had
entreated
and
esteemed
them
but
as
beastes
:
)
but
lesse
then
of
the
myre
of
the
streetes
,
and
euen
as
muche
care
is
it
that
they
haue
had
of
their
liues
and
of
their
soules
.
And
by
this
meanes
haue
died
so
many
Millions
without
faith
and
without
sacramentes
.
It
is
a
certaine
veritie
,
and
that
which
also
the
tyrants
them selues
knowe
right
well
and
confesse
,
that
the
Indiens
throughout
all
the
Indes
neuer
wrought
any
displeasure
vnto
the
Spaniardes
:
but
rather
that
they
reputed
them
as
come
from
heauen
,
vntill
suche
tyme
as
they
,
or
their
neighbours
had
receiued
the
first
,
sundrie
wronges
,
being
robbed
,
killed
,
forced
,
and
tormented
by
them
.
Of
the
Ile
of
hispaniola
.
IN
the
Ile
Hispaniola
,
which
was
the
first
(
as
we
haue
said
)
where
the
Spaniardes
arriued
,
beganne
the
great
slaughters
and
spoyles
of
people
:
the
Spaniardes
hauing
begunne
to
take
their
wiues
and
children
of
the
Indies
,
for
to
serue
their
turne
and
to
vse
them
ill
,
and
hauing
begunne
to
eate
their
victualles
,
gotten
by
their
sweate
and
erauell
:
not
contenting
them selues
with
that
which
the
Indians
gaue
them
of
their
owne
good
will
,
euery
one
after
their
habilitie
,
the
which
is
algates
very
small
,
forasmuch
as
they
are
accustomed
to
haue
no
more
store
,
then
they
haue
ordinarily
neede
of
,
and
that
such
as
they
get
with
litle
trauell
:
And
that
which
might
suffice
for
three
householdes
,
reconing
tenne
persons
for
eche
housholde
for
a
moneths
space
,
one
spaniarde
woulde
eate
and
destroy
in
a
day
.
Nowe
after
sundry
other
forces
,
violences
,
and
tormentes
,
which
they
wrought
against
them
:
the
Indians
beganne
to
perceiue
,
that
those
were
not
men
discended
from
heauen
.
Some
of
them
therefore
hid
their
victuals
:
others
hid
their
wiues
and
children
:
some
others
fledde
into
the
mountaynes
,
to
separate
them selues
a
farre
off
from
a
nation
of
so
harde
natured
and
ghastly
conuersation
.
The
Spaniardes
buffeted
them
with
their
fistes
and
bastouades
:
pressing
also
to
lay
handes
vpon
the
Lordes
of
the
Townes
.
And
these
cases
ended
in
so
great
an
hazarde
and
desperatenes
,
that
a
Spanishe
Captaine
durst
aduenture
to
rauish
forcibly
the
wife
of
the
greatest
king
and
Lord
of
this
Ile
.
Since
whiche
time
the
Indians
began
to
searche
meanes
to
cast
the
Spaniardes
out
of
their
landes
,
and
set
them
selues
in
armes
:
but
what
kind
of
armes
?
very
feeble
and
weake
to
withstand
or
resist
,
and
of
lesse
defence
(
wherfore
all
their
wars
are
no
more
warres
then
the
playings
of
children
,
when
as
they
play
at
Iogo
di
Canne
or
Reedes
.
)
The
Spaniardes
with
their
Horses
,
their
speares
and
launces
,
beganne
to
commit
murders
,
and
straunge
cruelties
:
they
entred
into
Townes
,
Borowes
,
and
Villages
,
sparing
neyther
children
,
nor
old
men
,
neither
women
with
childe
,
neyther
them
that
lay
In
,
but
that
they
ripped
their
bellies
,
and
cut
them
in
pieces
,
as
if
they
had
been
opening
of
Lambes
shut
vp
in
their
folde
.
They
layed
wagers
with
such
as
with
one
thrust
of
a
sworde
woulde
paunche
or
bowell
a
man
in
the
middest
,
or
with
one
blowe
of
a
sworde
woulde
most
redily
and
most
deliuerly
cut
off
his
head
,
or
that
woulde
best
pearce
his
entrals
at
one
stroke
.
They
tooke
the
little
soules
by
the
heeles
,
ramping
them
from
the
mothers
dugges
,
and
crushed
their
heades
against
the
clifces
.
Others
they
cast
into
the
riuers
laughing
and
mocking
,
and
when
they
tombled
into
the
water
,
they
sayde
,
nowe
shift
for
thy selfe
such
a
ones
corpes
.
They
put
others
,
together
with
their
mothers
and
all
that
they
met
,
to
the
edge
of
the
sword
.
They
made
certayne
Gibbets
long
and
low
,
in
such
sort
,
that
the
feete
of
the
hanged
on
,
touched
in
a
maner
the
ground
,
euery
one
enough
for
thirteene
,
in
the
honour
and
worship
of
our
Sauiour
and
his
twelue
Apostles
(
as
they
vsed
to
speake
)
and
setting
to
fire
,
burned
them
all
quicke
that
were
fastened
.
Vnto
all
others
,
whom
they
vsed
to
take
and
reserue
aliue
,
cutting
off
their
two
handes
as
neere
as
might
bee
,
and
so
letting
them
hang
,
they
sayd
:
Get
you
with
these
letters
,
to
carry
tydinges
to
those
which
are
fled
by
the
mountaines
.
They
murdered
commonly
the
Lordes
and
nobilitie
on
this
fashion
:
They
made
certayne
gra●es
of
perches
layed
on
pickforkes
,
and
made
a
litle
fire
vnderneath
,
to
the
intent
,
that
by
litle
and
litle
yelling
and
despeiring
in
these
tormentes
,
they
might
giue
vp
the
ghost
.
One
time
I
sawe
foure
or
fiue
of
the
principall
Lordes
roasted
and
broyled
vppon
these
gradeirons
.
Also
I
thinke
that
there
were
two
or
three
of
these
gredirons
,
garmshed
with
the
lyke
furniture
,
and
for
that
they
cryed
out
pitioussy
,
which
thing
troubled
the
Captayne
that
hee
could
not
then
sleepe
:
hee
commaunded
to
strangle
them
.
The
Sergeant
,
which
was
worse
then
the
hangman
that
burned
them
(
I
knowe
his
name
and
friendes
in
Seuill
)
woulde
not
haue
them
strangled
,
but
him
se●fe
putting
boulets
in
their
mouthes
,
to
the
ende
that
they
should
not
crie
,
put
to
the
fire
,
vntil
they
were
softly
rosted
after
his
desire
.
I
haue
seene
all
the
aforesayd
things
and
others
infinite
.
And
forasmuch
,
as
all
the
people
which
coulde
flee
,
hid
themselues
in
the
mountaynes
,
and
mounted
on
the
toppes
of
them
,
fled
from
the
men
so
without
all
manhood
,
emptie
of
all
pitie
,
behauing
them
as
sauage
beastes
,
the
slaughterers
and
deadly
enemies
of
mankinde
:
they
taught
their
houndes
,
fierce
dogs
,
to
teare
them
in
peeces
at
the
first
viewe
,
and
in
the
space
that
one
might
say
a
Credo
,
assayled
and
deuoured
an
Indian
as
if
it
had
been
a
swine
.
These
dogges
wrought
great
destructions
and
slaughters
.
And
forasmuche
as
sometimes
,
although
seldom
,
when
the
indians
put
to
death
some
Spaniards
vpon
good
right
and
lawe
of
due
Iustice
:
they
made
a
Lawe
betweene
them
,
that
for
one
Spaniarde
,
they
had
to
stay
an
hundreth
Indians
.
The
realmes
which
were
in
this
Ile
of
Hispaniola
.
THere
were
in
this
Ile
Hispaniola
,
fiue
greate
principall
realmes
,
and
fiue
very
mightie
Kinges
,
vnto
whome
almost
all
the
other
Lordes
obeyed
,
whiche
were
without
number
.
There
were
also
certaine
Lordes
of
other
seuerall
Prouinces
,
which
did
not
acknowledge
for
soueraigne
any
of
these
Kinges
:
One
realme
was
named
Magua
,
which
is
as
much
to
say
,
as
the
kingdome
of
the
playne
.
This
plaine
is
one
of
the
most
famous
and
most
admirable
thinges
of
all
that
is
in
the
worlde
.
For
it
contayneth
fourescore
leagues
of
grounde
,
from
the
South
sea
vnto
the
North
sea
:
hauing
in
breadth
fiue
leagues
,
and
eight
vnto
tenne
.
It
hath
in
one
side
and
other
exceeding
high
mountaynes
.
There
entreth
into
it
aboue
thirtie
thousande
riuers
and
lakes
,
of
the
which
twelue
are
as
great
as
Ebro
,
and
Duero
,
and
Guadalqueuir
.
And
all
the
riuers
which
issue
out
of
a
Mountayne
which
is
towardes
the
West
,
in
number
about
fiue
and
twentie
thousande
,
are
very
rich
of
golde
.
In
the
which
mountayne
or
mountaynes
,
is
contayned
the
prouince
of
Cibao
,
from
whence
the
mines
of
Cibao
take
their
names
,
and
from
whence
commeth
the
same
exquisite
golde
and
fiue
of
24.
karrets
,
which
is
so
renowined
in
these
partes
.
The
King
and
Lorde
of
this
realme
was
called
Guarionex
,
which
had
vnder
him
his
Vassals
and
Lieges
so
great
and
mightie
,
that
euery
one
of
them
was
able
to
set
forth
threescore
thousande
men
of
armes
for
the
seruice
of
the
king
Guarionex
.
Of
the
which
Lordes
I
haue
knowen
some
certayne
.
This
Guarionex
was
very
obedient
and
vertuous
,
naturally
desirous
of
peace
,
and
well
affectioned
to
the
deuotion
of
the
kings
of
Castile
,
and
his
people
gaue
by
his
commaundement
,
euery
housekeeper
a
certayne
kinde
of
Dromme
full
of
golde
:
but
afterwardes
being
not
able
to
fill
the
Dromme
cutte
it
off
by
the
middest
,
and
gaue
the
halfe
thereof
full
.
For
the
Indians
of
that
I
le
had
litle
or
none
industrie
or
practise
to
gather
or
drawe
golde
out
of
the
mines
.
This
Caceque
presented
vnto
the
king
of
Castile
his
seruice
,
in
causing
to
be
manured
all
the
landes
from
the
Isavella
,
where
the
Spanish
first
sited
,
vnto
the
Towne
of
Saint
Domingo
,
which
are
fittie
leagues
large
,
on
condition
that
hee
shoulde
exact
of
them
no
golde
:
for
he
sayd
,
(
and
hee
sayde
the
trueth
)
that
his
subiectes
had
not
the
skill
to
drawe
it
out
.
As
for
the
manuring
which
he
sayde
hee
woulde
procure
to
bee
done
:
I
knowe
that
hee
coulde
haue
done
it
very
easely
,
and
with
great
readinesse
,
and
that
it
woulde
haue
been
worth
vnto
the
king
euery
yeere
more
then
three
Millions
of
Castillans
,
besids
that
it
would
haue
caused
,
that
,
at
this
houre
there
had
bin
aboue
fiftie
Cities
greater
then
Seuille
.
The
payment
that
they
made
to
this
good
king
and
Lord
,
so
gracious
and
so
redowbted
,
was
to
dishonour
him
in
the
person
of
his
wife
,
an
euill
Christian
,
a
Captayne
rauishing
her
.
This
king
coulde
haue
attended
the
tune
and
opportunitie
to
auenge
him selfe
in
leuying
〈…〉
drawe
him selfe
rather
,
and
onely
〈…〉
thus
being
banished
from
his
real●e
〈…〉
of
the
Cignaios
,
where
there
was
a
great
Lorde
his
〈◊〉
.
After
that
the
Spaniardes
were
〈◊〉
of
his
〈◊〉
▪
and
●ee
coulde
〈…〉
himselfe
〈…〉
against
the
Lorde
whiche
had
〈…〉
and
make
great
●l●●ghters
through
the
coun●●●y
〈◊〉
they
goe
,
〈…〉
they
found
and
tooke
〈…〉
a
Shippe
,
to
carrie
him
to
C●stile
:
which
shippe
was
lost
uppon
the
sea
,
and
there
were
wi●h
him
drowned
many
Spaniardes
,
and
a
great
quantitie
of
Golde
,
amongst
the
whiche
also
〈◊〉
the
great
〈◊〉
of
Golde
,
〈…〉
weying
three
thousande
▪
〈…〉
GOD
to
wreake
〈…〉
.
The
other
rea●●tie
was
called
of
Mar●●●
,
where
〈◊〉
at
this
day
the
port
at
one
of
the
●oundes
of
the
play●●
,
〈◊〉
the
North
:
and
it
is
farre
greater
then
the
rea●●e
of
Portugall
,
〈◊〉
of
golde
,
and
copper
〈…〉
.
The
king
was
called
〈◊〉
,
which
had
〈…〉
many
great
Lordes
▪
of
the
which
I
have
knowen
and
seene
sundrie
▪
〈…〉
first
the
〈◊〉
admyrall
,
when
he
●●co●ered
the
I●dies
,
whom
at
that
time
that
he
discouered
the
Ile
,
the
said
〈…〉
so
graciously
,
bountifully
,
&
〈◊〉
withall
the
Spaniardes
who
were
with
him
,
in
〈◊〉
him
〈…〉
(
which
the
Admirall
was
carried
in
)
that
he
●●ulde
not
haue
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
made
off
in
his
owne
countrey
of
his
owne
father
.
This
did
I
●nderstand
of
the
Admyrals
owne
mouth
.
This
king
died
,
in
〈◊〉
the
slaughters
and
cruelties
of
the
Spaniards
through
〈…〉
,
●●●yng
destroyed
and
●epri●ed
of
his
〈◊〉
▪
And
in
the
〈◊〉
Lordes
his
subi●ctes
died
in
the
tyrannie
,
and
〈◊〉
that
shall
be
declared
hereafter
.
The
thirde
Realme
and
dominion
was
M●gu●●●
,
a
countrey
also
admirable
,
very
healthsome
,
and
very
fertile
,
where
the
best
〈…〉
The
〈…〉
was
named
〈…〉
m●●●es
of
his
serui●●●
▪
The
Spaniardes
●ooke
this
king
with
great
subtiltie
▪
and
malice
,
e●en
as
hee
was
in
his
owne
house
▪
●ou●●●ng
him
of
nothing
▪
They
〈…〉
●a
shippe
to
〈…〉
other
shippe
in
the
porte
〈…〉
vpsayle
:
Beholde
howe
God
by
his
i●st
●u●g●ment
,
woulde
decla●e
that
i●
with
other
thinge●
,
was
an
exceeding
〈◊〉
ini●u●tie
and
●●iust
,
by
sending
the
same
night
a
〈◊〉
,
which
sunke
,
and
drenched
that
〈◊〉
with
the
Spaniardes
that
were
within
.
There
died
also
with
them
the
〈…〉
with
●oltes
and
irons
.
This
Prince
〈◊〉
three
or
foure
brothers
〈…〉
,
and
couragious
Lorde
and
brother
so
against
all
equitie
,
together
with
the
w●●●s
and
slaughters
which
the
Spaniardes
made
in
other
realmes
,
and
specially
after
that
they
had
hearde
that
the
king
their
brother
was
dead
▪
they
put
themselues
in
armes
to
●●●ounter
the
Spaniardes
and
to
auenge
the
〈…〉
who
〈◊〉
the
other
side
●eeting
with
them
●n
●orsebacke
(
〈…〉
aboue
all
that
may
bee
to
〈◊〉
the
India●●
with
)
so
they
rage
in
discomfitures
and
massacres
▪
that
the
one
〈◊〉
of
this
Realme
hath
beene
thereby
desolate
and
dispeopled
.
The
fourth
Realme
i●
the
s●me
whiche
is
〈◊〉
of
X●●agua
.
This
Realme
〈…〉
or
to
speake
of
,
〈…〉
the
other
REalmes
i●
language
and
polished
speech
,
in
〈◊〉
and
good
maners
,
the
be●●
co●posed
and
ordered
▪
For
as
much
as
there
were
many
noble
Lordes
and
Gentlemen
,
the
people
also
beeing
the
best
made
and
〈◊〉
be●●ifull
.
The
King
〈◊〉
to
name
〈◊〉
which
had
〈◊〉
called
An●●●ona
.
〈◊〉
two
,
the
brother
and
sister
▪
had
〈◊〉
great
seruices
to
the
kings
of
Castile
,
and
great
〈◊〉
to
the
Spaniardes
,
deliu●ring
them
from
sundrie
daungers
of
death
.
After
the
〈◊〉
of
Beh●●mo
,
An●●●●na
〈…〉
So●●raigne
of
the
Realme
.
〈…〉
the
G●●●●nour
of
this
Ile
with
threescore
Horses
,
and
more
then
three
hundre●●
footemen
(
the
horsemen
alone
had
beene
enough
to
spoyle
and
ouerrunne
not
this
Ile
alone
,
but
all
the
firme
lande
withal
.
)
And
so
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
beeing
called
,
more
then
three
hundre●●
Lordes
〈…〉
,
of
whome
the
chiefest
,
〈…〉
caused
to
be●
conueyed
into
a
house
of
thatch
,
and
〈…〉
.
●owe
on
this
wise
were
these
Lordes
〈…〉
:
all
the
rest
of
the
Lordes
,
with
other
folk
infinite
,
were
smitten
to
●each
with
their
speares
and
swordes
.
But
the
Soueraigne
L●die
Anac●ona
,
to
doe
her
honour
they
hanged
▪
It
happened
that
certaine
Spaniardes
,
eyther
of
〈◊〉
or
of
co●●●ousnesse
,
〈…〉
detayned
certayne
young
〈…〉
:
because
they
woulde
not
〈◊〉
them
slayne
,
and
〈◊〉
them
behinde
them
on
their
horse
backes
:
another
Spaniarde
came
behinde
,
whi●he
stabbed
them
through
with
a
speare
.
If
so
bee
any
child●
〈◊〉
boy
tombled
downe
to
the
grounde
▪
〈◊〉
Spaniarde
〈◊〉
and
●utte
off
his
legges
.
Some
certayne
of
these
〈◊〉
which
coulde
escape
this
〈…〉
,
passed
〈…〉
I
le
neere
unto
the
〈◊〉
,
within
〈◊〉
eyght
leagues
.
The
gouenour
condemned
all
those
which
had
passed
the
〈…〉
because
they
had
〈…〉
.
〈…〉
was
called
●igney
,
ouer
the
whiche
raigne●
〈…〉
,
whome
the
Spaniardes
hanged
vp
.
The
people
were
in●●nite
whome
I
sa●●
〈◊〉
aliue
,
〈◊〉
rent
●●
p●●●es
,
and
tormented
〈◊〉
and
●●raung●●y
,
and
whome
I
sawe
made
slaues
,
euen
so
many
as
they
〈…〉
.
And
〈◊〉
for
as
muche
as
there
are
so
manye
〈…〉
those
peoples
,
that
they
can
not
conueniently
be
〈◊〉
in
writing
(
yea
I
doe
verily
beleeue
that
of
a
〈◊〉
of
thinges
to
be
spoken
of
there
can
not
be
disciphered
of
〈◊〉
thousande
●●●tes
one
:
)
I
wil
only
in
that
which
〈◊〉
the
warres
〈◊〉
me●tioned
conclude
,
auerre
,
and
iustifie
in
conscience
,
and
as
before
God
,
that
of
all
others
,
which
I
ouerpasse
to
speake
of
,
or
shall
bee
able
to
speake
of
,
the
Indians
neuer
gaue
no
more
occasion
,
or
cause
,
then
might
a
conuent
of
good
religious
persons
well
ordered
,
why
they
shoulde
bee
robbed
and
slayne
,
and
why
those
that
escaped
the
death
,
shoulde
be
retayned
in
a
perpetuall
captiuitie
and
bondage
.
I
affirme
yet
moreouer
,
for
ought
that
I
can
beleeue
or
coniecture
,
that
,
during
all
the
time
that
all
this
huge
number
of
these
Islanders
haue
been
murdered
and
made
away
vtterly
,
they
neuer
committed
against
the
Spaniardes
any
one
mortall
offence
,
punishable
by
the
l●●
of
m●n
▪
And
concerning
offences
,
of
the
which
the
punishment
is
reserued
vnto
God
,
as
are
desire
of
reuengement
,
〈◊〉
,
and
rancour
,
which
these
people
might
beare
against
enemies
so
capitall
as
were
the
Spaniardes
,
that
very
fewe
persons
haue
been
attached
with
the
blemishe
,
and
lesse
violent
and
forcible
did
I
finde
them
,
by
the
good
experience
I
had
of
them
,
then
〈…〉
twelue
yeeres
of
age
.
And
I
knowe
for
certayne
and
infallible
,
that
the
Indians
had
euermore
most
●ust
cause
of
warre
against
the
Spaniardes
:
but
the
Spaniardes
ne●er
had
any
iust
cause
of
warre
agaynst
the
Indians
,
but
they
were
all
〈◊〉
and
most
●nrighteous
,
more
then
can
bee
spoken
of
any
tyrant
that
is
on
the
whole
earth
.
And
I
affirme
the
〈…〉
other
actes
and
gestes
by
them
〈…〉
.
The
warres
〈◊〉
,
and
all
the
men
〈◊〉
to
death
thereby
reserued
〈◊〉
the
young
〈◊〉
,
women
,
and
children
▪
(
the
which
they
departed
among
them
,
in
giuing
〈…〉
,
to
another
fourtie
,
and
to
another
an
hundreth
,
or
tow
hundreth
,
according
as
●uery
one
had
the
〈◊〉
of
the
〈◊〉
Tyrant
,
whom
they
called
the
〈◊〉
)
they
〈…〉
Spaniardes
vppon
that
condition
and
colour
,
that
they
woulde
teache
them
the
Catholike
faith
,
they
themselues
who
took
vppon
them
this
charge
of
soules
,
commonly
all
idiots
,
or
vtterly
ignorant
persons
,
barbarous
men
,
extreemely
couetous
and
vitious
.
Nowe
the
carke
and
care
that
these
had
of
them
,
was
to
send
the
men
vnto
the
mines
,
to
make
them
drein
them
out
golde
,
which
is
an
intollerable
trauell
:
and
the
women
they
bestowed
into
the
countrey
to
their
farmes
,
to
manure
and
till
the
ground
,
which
is
asore
trauell
,
euen
for
the
very
men
,
the
ablest
and
mightiest
.
They
gaue
to
eate
neither
to
one
nor
other
,
nought
saue
grasses
and
such
like
thinges
of
no
substance
:
in
suche
sorte
as
the
milke
of
the
brestes
of
the
wiues
newe
deliuered
of
their
childbyrth
dryed
vp
:
and
thus
dyed
in
a
small
season
,
all
the
litle
creatures
their
young
children
.
Further
,
by
reason
of
the
separation
and
not
cohabiting
of
the
men
with
their
wiues
,
the
generation
ceased
betweene
them
.
The
men
died
with
toyle
and
famine
in
the
mineralles
:
these
the
women
died
of
the
same
in
the
fieldes
.
By
these
meanes
were
consumed
and
brought
to
their
endes
so
huge
a
number
of
the
folke
of
this
Islande
.
By
the
like
might
be
abolished
and
exterpate
,
all
the
inhabitantes
of
the
worlde
.
As
touching
loding
,
they
layde
vpon
them
fourescore
or
an
hundreth
poundes
waight
,
which
they
shoulde
carrie
an
hundreth
or
two
hundreth
leagues
:
The
Spanish
also
causing
them selues
to
be
carried
in
lytres
vppon
men
armes
,
or
beddes
made
by
the
Indians
,
in
fashion
of
nettes
.
For
they
serued
their
turnes
with
them
to
transporte
their
carriages
and
bagage
as
beastes
,
wherby
they
had
vpon
their
backes
&
shoulders
,
w●i●es
and
galles
as
poore
galled
beasts
.
Also
as
touching
whippings
,
bastonading
,
buffeting
,
blowes
with
the
fist
,
cursing
,
and
a
thousande
other
kindes
of
torments
,
which
they
practised
vpon
them
during
the
tune
that
they
trauayled
,
of
a
trueth
,
they
can
not
bee
recounted
in
a
long
season
,
nor
written
in
a
great
deale
of
paper
,
and
they
shoulde
bee
euen
to
affright
men
withall
.
It
is
to
be
noted
,
that
the
destruction
of
these
iles
and
lands
,
beganne
after
the
decease
of
the
most
gracious
Queene
,
da●e
Isabell
,
which
was
the
yeere
,
a
thousande
,
fiue
hundreth
,
and
foure
.
For
before
there
were
layed
waste
in
this
ile
,
but
certayne
Prouinces
by
vniust
warre
,
and
that
not
wholly
altogether
▪
&
these
for
the
more
part
,
or
in
a
maner
al
were
concealed
from
the
knowledge
of
the
Q.
(
vnto
whom
it
may
please
god
to
giue
his
holy
glory
)
forasmuch
as
she
had
a
great
desire
,
&
a
zeale
admirable
,
that
those
people
might
be
saued
&
prosper
,
as
we
do
know
good
examples
,
the
which
we
haue
seen
with
our
eies
,
&
felt
with
our
hands
.
Further
note
here
,
that
in
what
part
of
the
Indies
the
Spanishe
haue
come
,
they
haue
euermore
exercised
against
the
Indians
,
these
innocent
peoples
,
the
cruelties
aforesaid
,
&
oppressions
abominable
,
&
inuented
day
by
day
new
torments
,
huger
&
monstrouser
,
becomming
euery
day
more
cruel
.
wherfore
god
also
gaue
than
ouer
to
fal
headlong
down
with
a
more
extreme
downfal
into
a
reprobate
sense
.
Of
the
two
Iles
S.
Iohn
.
and
Iamayca
.
THe
Spanish
passed
ouer
to
the
Ile
of
S.
Iohn
,
&
to
that
of
Iamayca
(
which
were
like
gardens
for
bees
)
1509.
setting
before-them
the
same
end
which
they
had
in
the
Ile
Hispaniola
,
&
committing
the
robberies
&
crimes
aforesaid
,
adioyning
therunto
many
great
&
notable
cruelties
,
killing
,
burning
,
rosting
&
casting
them
to
the
dogs
:
farthermore
,
afterwards
oppressing
,
&
vexing
them
in
their
minerals
&
other
trauel
,
vnto
the
rotting
out
of
those
pore
innocents
which
were
in
these
two
Iles
,
by
supputation
6.
C.
M.
soules
:
yea
I
beleue
,
that
they
were
more
than
a
milion
,
although
there
be
not
at
this
day
in
either
I
le.
200.
persons
,
and
all
perished
without
faith
and
without
Sacramentes
.
Of
the
Ile
of
Cuba
.
IN
the
year
1511
they
passed
to
the
Ile
of
Cuba
,
which
is
(
as
I
haue
said
)
as
long
as
there
is
distance
from
Vall●d●l●●
to
Rome
▪
(
where
were
great
prouinces
,
&
great
multitudes
of
people
)
they
both
began
〈…〉
in
them
after
the
〈…〉
far
more
cruelly
.
There
came
to
passe
in
this
Iland
matters
worth
the
noting
:
A
C●cique
named
Hathuey
,
which
had
co●●eyed
himselfe
from
the
Ile
Hispaniola
to
Cuba
with
many
of
his
people
,
to
auoid
the
calamities
&
〈…〉
so
vnnatural
of
the
spanish
:
when
〈◊〉
certain
Indians
had
told
him
〈…〉
the
Spaniards
were
comming
towards
Cuba
,
he
〈…〉
:
Nowe
you
know
that
the
Spaniards
〈…〉
this
〈…〉
ye
knowe
also
by
experience
how
they
〈…〉
such
&
the
people
of
〈◊〉
(
meaning
〈…〉
)
〈◊〉
they
come
to
do
the
like
here
.
Wot
ye
why
they
do
it
?
they
answered
no
,
vnlesse
〈…〉
they
are
by
nature
void
of
humanitie
.
He
replied
:
They
do
it
not
onely
for
that
▪
but
because
they
haue
a
god
whom
they
hono●
&
do
demand
very
much
&
to
that
end
to
haue
from
vs
as
wel
as
others
to
honor
him
withall
they
do
their
vttermost
to
subdue
vs
.
He
had
them
by
him
a
litle
chestful
of
gold
&
Iewels
,
&
said
,
Behold
here
the
God
of
the
Spaniards
,
let
vs
do
to
him
▪
if
it
so
seeme
you
good
,
A●●●os
(
which
are
windlesse●
&
daunces
)
thus
doing
,
we
shall
please
him
&
he
wil
command
the
Spaniards
that
they
shal
do
vs
no
harme
:
They
answerd
all
with
a
loud
voyce
:
Wel
said
sir
,
wel
said
.
Thus
then
they
daunsed
before
it
,
vntil
they
were
wery
,
them
quoth
the
L.
Hathuey
,
Take
we
heed
howeuer
the
world
go
,
if
we
keep
him
,
to
the
end
that
he
be
taken
away
from
vs
in
the
end
they
wil
kill
vs
:
wherfore
let
vs
cast
him
into
the
riuer
:
whervnto
they
all
agreed
,
and
so
they
cast
it
into
a
great
riuer
there
.
This
L.
&
〈◊〉
went
alwaies
fleeing
the
spanish
,
incontinent
as
they
were
arriued
at
the
ile
of
Cuba
,
as
he
which
knew
them
but
too
wel
▪
&
defended
himself
,
when
as
he
met
them
.
In
the
end
he
was
taken
&
only
for
because
that
he
fled
from
a
nation
so
vniust
&
e●uel
,
&
that
▪
he
defended
himself
from
such
as
would
kil
him
,
&
oppresse
him
euen
vnto
the
death
,
with
all
his
folk
,
he
was
burned
aliue
.
Now
as
he
was
fastned
to
the
stake
,
a
religious
man
of
S.
Francis
order
,
a
deuout
person
,
spoke
to
him
somwhat
of
God
&
of
our
faith
which
thin●●
this
said
L.
had
neuer
heard
of
,
yet
might
be
sufficient
for
the
time
which
the
hutchers
gaue
him
,
that
if
he
would
beleue
those
things
which
were
spoken
to
him
he
should
go
to
heauen
,
where
is
glory
&
rest
euerlasting
,
that
if
he
did
not
beleue
,
he
should
go
to
hel
,
there
to
be
tormented
perpetually
.
The
L.
after
hauing
a
litle
paused
to
think
of
the
matter
,
demanded
of
the
religious
man
,
whether
that
the
spaniards
went
to
heauen
?
who
answered
,
yea
:
such
of
them
that
were
good
.
The
Cacik
answered
againe
immediatly
without
any
further
deliberation
,
that
he
would
not
go
to
heauen
,
but
that
hee
would
go
to
hell
,
to
the
ende
,
not
to
come
in
the
place
where
such
people
should
be
,
and
to
the
end
not
so
see
a
nation
so
cruell
.
L●●
here
the
praises
and
honour
,
which
God
and
our
faith
haue
receiued
of
the
Spaniardes
,
which
haue
gone
to
the
Iudes
.
One
tyme
the
Indians
came
to
meete
vs
,
and
to
receiue
vs
with
victualles
,
and
delicate
cheere
,
and
with
all
entertaynmene
ten
leagues
of
a
great
city
,
and
beeing
come
at
the
place
,
they
presented
vs
with
a
great
quantitie
of
〈◊〉
,
and
of
bread
,
and
other
meate
,
together
with
all
that
they
coulde
doe
for
vs
to
the
vttermost
.
See
incontinent
the
diuell
,
whiche
put
him selfe
into
the
Spaniardes
,
to
put
them
all
to
the
edge
of
the
sworde
in
my
presence
,
without
any
cause
whatsoeuer
,
more
then
three
thousande
soules
,
which
were
set
before
vs
,
men
,
women
,
and
children
.
I
saw
there
so
great
cruelties
,
that
neuer
my
man
liuing
eyther
haue
or
shall
see
the
like
.
Another
tyme
,
but
a
fewe
dayes
after
the
premisses
,
I
sente
messengers
vnto
all
the
Lordes
of
the
prouince
of
Hauana
,
assuring
them
,
that
they
shoulde
not
neede
to
see
are
(
for
they
had
hearde
of
my
credite
)
and
that
without
withdrawing
themselues
,
they
shoulde
come
to
receiue
vs
,
and
that
there
shoulde
bee
done
vnto
them
no
displeasure
:
for
all
the
countrey
was
afraide
,
by
reason
of
the
mischiefes
and
murderings
passed
,
and
this
did
I
by
the
aduice
of
the
Captayne
him selfe
.
After
that
wee
were
come
into
the
Prouince
,
one
and
twentie
Lordes
and
Cacikes
came
to
receiue
vs
,
whome
the
Captayne
apprehended
incontinent
,
breaking
the
safe
conduite
whiche
I
had
made
them
,
and
intended
the
day
next
following
to
burne
them
aliue
,
saying
that
it
was
expedient
so
to
doe
,
for
that
otherwise
those
Lordes
one
day
,
woulde
doe
vs
a
shrewde
turne
.
I
founde
me●
selfe
in
a
great
deale
of
trouble
to
saue
them
from
the
fire
:
howbeit
in
the
ende
they
escaped
.
After
that
the
Indians
of
this
Islande
were
thus
brought
into
bondage
and
calamitie
,
like
vnto
those
of
the
Ile
of
Hispaniola
,
and
that
they
sawe
that
they
dyed
and
perished
all
without
remedie
:
some
of
them
began
to
flie
into
the
mountaynes
,
others
quite
desperate
hanged
them selues
,
and
there
hung
together
hu●sbandes
with
their
wiues
,
hanging
with
them
their
litle
children
.
And
through
the
crueltie
of
one
onely
Spaniarde
,
whiche
was
a
great
tyraunt
,
and
one
whom
I
knowe
,
there
hunge
them selues
more
then
two
hundred
Indians
:
and
of
this
fashion
died
an
infinitie
of
people
.
There
was
in
this
Ile
an
officer
of
the
kinges
,
〈◊〉
whome
they
gaue
for
his
share
three
hundred
Indians
,
of
whome
at
the
ende
of
three
monethes
there
died
by
him
in
the
trauayle
of
the
mynes
,
two
hundred
and
sixtie
:
in
suche
sorte
,
that
there
remained
nowe
but
thirtie
,
which
was
the
tenth
part
.
Afterwardes
they
gaue
him
as
many
more
,
and
more
,
and
those
also
be
made
hauocke
of
in
like
maner
,
and
still
as
many
as
they
gaue
him
,
so
many
hee
flewe
vntill
hee
dyed
him selfe
,
and
that
the
diuell
carried
him
away
.
In
three
or
foure
monethes
(
mee
selfe
beeing
present
)
there
died
more
then
sixe
thousande
children
,
by
reason
that
they
had
plucked
away
from
them
their
fathers
and
mothers
whiche
they
sent
into
the
mines
.
I
behelde
also
other
things
frightfull
.
Shortly
after
they
resolued
to
climbe
after
those
whiche
were
in
the
mountaynes
,
where
they
wrought
also
ghastly
slaughters
,
and
thus
laide
waste
all
this
Ile
:
which
wee
behelde
not
long
after
,
and
it
is
great
pitie
to
see
it
so
dispeopled
and
desolate
as
it
is
.
Of
the
firme
lande
.
IN
the
yeere
one
thousand
fiue
hundred
,
and
foureteene
,
there
landed
in
the
maine
a
mischieuous
gouernour
,
a
most
cruell
tyraunt
,
which
had
neyther
pitie
nor
prudencie
in
him
,
being
as
an
instrument
of
the
wrath
of
God
,
fully
resolued
to
set
into
this
land
agreat
number
of
Spaniards
.
And
howbeit
that
aforetime
certayne
other
tyrauntes
had
entred
the
lande
,
and
had
spoyled
,
murdered
,
and
cruelly
entreated
very
many
folke
:
yet
was
it
not
but
on
the
sea
coast
that
they
spoyled
,
and
robbed
,
and
did
the
worst
that
they
could
.
But
this
surpassed
all
the
others
whiche
came
before
him
,
and
all
those
of
all
the
Ilandes
,
howe
cursed
and
abhominable
soeuer
they
were
in
all
their
doings
.
He
not
onely
wasted
or
dispeopled
the
sea
coast
,
but
sacked
also
great
realmes
and
countreys
,
making
hauockes
by
slaying
and
murdering
of
peoples
,
infinite
to
bee
numbred
,
and
sending
them
to
hell
.
He
ouer
ranne
and
herried
most
of
the
places
in
the
land
,
from
Darien
vpwarde
,
vnto
the
Realme
and
Prouinces
of
Nicaragua
within
being
,
which
are
more
then
fiue
hundred
leagues
of
the
best
and
most
fertile
grounde
in
the
whole
worlde
,
where
there
were
a
good
number
of
great
Lordes
,
with
a
number
of
townes
,
borrowes
,
and
villages
,
and
store
of
gold
in
more
abundaunce
then
was
to
bee
founde
on
the
earth
vntyll
that
present
.
For
albeit
that
Spaine
was
as
it
were
replenished
with
gold
,
of
the
finest
that
came
from
the
Ile
Hispaniola
:
the
same
had
been
only
drawen
out
of
the
entrals
of
the
earth
by
the
Indians
,
of
the
mines
,
aforesaid
,
wher
they
died
as
hath
been
sayde
.
This
gouernour
with
his
men
,
found
out
newe
sorts
of
cruelties
and
torments
,
to
cause
them
to
discouer
and
giue
him
golde
.
There
was
a
captayne
of
his
,
which
flue
in
one
walke
and
course
which
was
made
by
his
commaundement
,
to
robbe
and
roote
out
more
then
fourtie
thousand
soules
,
putting
them
to
the
edge
of
the
sword
,
burning
them
,
&
giuing
them
to
the
dogs
,
&
tormenting
them
diuersly
:
which
also
a
religious
man
of
the
order
of
S.
Francis
,
who
went
with
him
,
beheld
with
his
eies
,
and
had
to
name
frier
Francis
of
S.
Romaine
.
The
most
pernicious
blindnes
,
which
hath
alwaies
possessed
those
who
haue
gouerned
the
Indians
in
stead
of
the
care
which
they
shold
haue
for
the
conuersion
&
saluation
of
those
people
,
(
which
they
haue
alwaies
neglected
,
their
mouth
with
painted
fables
speaking
one
thing
,
but
their
heart
thinking
another
)
came
to
the
passe
,
as
to
command
orders
to
be
set
down
vnto
the
Indians
to
receiue
the
faith
,
&
render
themselues
vnto
the
obedience
of
the
K.
of
Castile
,
or
otherwise
to
bid
them
battel
with
fire
&
sworde
,
&
to
slay
them
or
make
them
slaues
:
As
if
the
sonne
of
God
which
died
for
euery
one
of
them
had
commanded
in
his
law
,
wher
he
saith
,
Go
teach
al
nations
,
that
there
should
be
ordinances
set
down
vnto
infidels
,
being
peacefull
&
quiet
,
&
in
possession
of
their
proper
lande
,
if
so
be
they
receiued
it
not
foorth
with
,
without
any
preaching
or
teaching
first
had
:
&
if
that
they
submitted
not
themselues
to
the
dominion
of
a
king
,
whom
they
neuer
sawe
&
whom
they
neuer
heard
speake
of
,
&
namely
such
a
one
as
whose
messengers
&
men
were
so
cruel
,
&
so
debarred
from
all
pitie
,
&
such
horrible
tyrants
,
that
they
should
for
the
lose
their
goods
&
lands
,
their
liberty
,
their
wiues
&
children
,
with
their
liues
.
Which
is
a
thing
too
absurd
&
fond
,
worthy
of
al
reproch
&
mockery
,
yea
worthy
of
hel
fire
,
in
such
sort
as
when
this
wicked
and
wretched
gouernour
had
accepted
the
charge
,
to
put
in
execution
the
sayde
ordinances
,
to
the
end
to
make
them
seeme
the
more
iust
in
appearance
.
For
they
were
of
themselues
impertinent
,
against
all
reason
&
law
,
he
commanded
(
or
peraduenture
the
thieues
,
whom
he
dispatched
to
doe
the
execution
,
did
it
of
their
own
heads
)
when
they
were
purposed
to
go
a
rouing
&
robbing
of
any
place
,
where
they
knewe
that
there
was
any
gold
,
the
Indians
being
in
their
towns
&
dwelling
houses
,
without
mistrusting
any
thing
,
the
wicked
Spaniards
would
go
after
the
guise
of
thieues
,
vnto
within
halfe
a
league
neere
some
town
,
borowe
,
or
village
,
and
there
by
themselues
alone
,
&
by
night
make
a
reading
,
publication
,
or
proclamation
of
the
said
ordinances
,
saying
thus
,
Oyes
Caciques
&
Indians
of
this
firme
land
of
such
a
place
:
Be
it
knowen
vnto
you
,
that
there
is
one
God
,
one
Pope
,
one
king
of
Castile
,
which
is
L.
of
these
landes
:
make
your
appearance
,
al
delay
set
aside
,
here
to
do
him
homage
,
&c.
Which
if
you
shall
not
accomplish
:
Be
it
knowen
vnto
you
,
that
we
wil
make
war
vpon
you
,
and
we
wil
kil
you
,
&
make
you
slaues
.
Hereupon
at
the
fourth
watch
in
the
morning
,
the
poore
innocents
,
sleeping
yet
with
their
wiues
and
children
:
these
tyrantes
set
vppon
the
place
,
casting
fire
on
the
houses
which
commonly
were
thatched
,
&
so
burn
vp
all
quick
men
,
women
&
children
,
more
sodainely
than
that
they
could
of
a
great
many
be
perceiued
.
They
massacred
at
the
instant
those
that
seemed
them
good
,
&
those
whom
they
took
prisonners
,
they
caused
them
cruelly
to
die
vpon
the
rack
,
to
make
them
to
tell
in
what
places
there
were
any
more
golde
than
they
found
with
them
:
and
others
which
remayned
aliue
,
they
made
them
slaues
,
marking
them
with
a
hot
iron
,
so
after
the
fire
being
out
&
quenched
,
they
go
seeke
the
golde
in
their
houses
.
This
is
then
the
deportement
in
these
affayres
of
this
mischieuous
person
,
with
all
the
bond
of
his
vngodly
Christians
,
which
hee
trayned
from
the
fourteenth
yeere
,
vnto
the
one
and
twentie
,
or
two
and
twentieth
yeere
,
sending
in
these
exploytes
sixe
or
moe
of
his
seruants
or
souldiers
,
by
whom
he
receiued
as
many
shares
,
ouer
and
beesides
his
Captaynes
Generalles
part
,
which
he
leuied
of
all
the
golde
,
of
all
the
pearles
,
and
of
all
the
iewels
which
they
tooke
of
those
whom
they
made
their
slaues
.
The
selfsame
did
the
kings
officers
,
euery
one
sending
forth
as
many
seruants
as
he
coulde
.
The
Byshoppe
also
,
which
was
the
chiefe
in
the
Realme
,
hee
sent
his
seruauntes
to
haue
his
share
in
the
bootie
:
They
spoyled
more
golde
within
the
tyme
,
and
in
this
realme
,
as
farre
foorth
as
I
am
able
to
recken
,
then
woulde
amount
to
a
million
of
Ducates
,
yea
,
I
beleeue
,
that
I
make
my
reckoning
with
the
least
.
Yet
will
it
bee
founde
,
that
of
all
this
great
thieuing
,
they
neuer
sent
to
the
king
ought
saue
three
thousande
Castillans
,
hauing
there
about
killed
and
destroyed
aboue
eyght
hundred
thousande
soules
.
The
other
tyraunt
gouernours
which
succeeded
after
,
vnto
the
yeere
thirtie
and
three
,
slue
,
or
at
least
wise
consented
,
for
all
those
which
remayned
to
slay
them
in
that
tyrannicall
slauerie
.
Amongst
an
infinite
sorte
of
mischiefes
,
which
this
gouernoure
did
,
or
consented
vnto
the
doing
during
the
time
of
his
gouernment
,
this
was
one
:
To
witte
,
that
a
Cacike
or
Lorde
giuing
him
,
eyther
of
his
good
will
,
or
whiche
is
rather
to
bee
thought
for
feare
,
the
weight
of
niene
thousande
Ducates
:
the
Spaniardes
not
content
withall
,
tooke
the
saide
Lorde
,
and
tyed
him
to
a
stake
,
setting
him
on
the
earth
,
his
feete
stretched
vp
,
against
the
which
they
set
fire
to
cause
him
to
giue
them
some
more
golde
,
The
Lorde
sent
to
his
house
,
whence
there
were
brought
yet
moreouer
three
thousand
Castillans
.
They
goe
a
freshe
to
giue
him
newe
tormentes
.
And
when
the
Lorde
gaue
them
no
more
,
eyther
because
he
had
it
not
,
or
because
hee
woulde
giue
them
no
more
,
they
bent
his
feete
agaynst
the
fyre
,
vntill
that
the
very
marrowe
sprang
out
and
trylled
downe
the
sowles
of
his
feete
:
so
as
hee
therewith
died
.
They
haue
oftentimes
exercised
these
kinde
of
tormentes
towardes
the
Lordes
,
to
make
them
giue
them
golde
,
wherewith
they
haue
also
slayne
them
.
An other
tyme
,
a
certayne
companie
of
Spaniardes
,
vsing
their
theftes
and
robberies
,
came
to
a
mountayne
,
where
were
assembled
and
hid
a
number
of
people
,
hauing
shunned
those
men
so
pernicious
and
horrible
:
whom
incontinent
entring
vpon
,
they
tooke
a
three
or
fourescore
,
as
well
women
as
mayds
,
hauing
killed
as
many
as
they
could
kill
.
The
morrowe
after
,
there
assembled
a
great
companie
of
Indians
,
to
pursue
the
Spaniardes
,
warring
against
them
for
the
great
desire
they
had
to
recouer
their
wiues
and
daughters
.
The
Spaniards
perceiuing
the
Indians
to
approche
so
neere
vpon
them
,
would
not
so
forgo
their
pray
,
but
stabd
their
swords
thorowe
the
bellies
of
the
wiues
and
wenches
,
leauing
but
one
alone
aliue
of
all
the
fourescore
.
The
Indians
felt
their
hearts
to
burst
for
sorrowe
and
griefe
which
they
suffered
,
yelling
out
in
cries
and
speaking
suche
woordes
:
O
wicked
men
,
O
yee
the
cruell
Spaniardes
:
doe
yee
kill
Las
Iras
?
They
terme
Iras
in
that
countrey
the
women
:
as
if
they
woulde
say
,
To
kyll
women
,
those
be
actes
of
abhominable
men
,
and
cruell
as
beastes
.
There
was
a
tenne
or
fifteene
leagues
from
Ioanama
,
a
great
Lorde
named
Paris
,
which
was
very
riche
of
golde
:
The
Spaniardes
went
thither
,
whome
this
Lorde
receiued
as
if
they
had
been
his
own
brethren
,
and
made
a
present
vnto
the
Captaine
of
fiftie
thousand
Castillans
of
his
own
voluntarie
accord
.
It
semed
vnto
the
Captaine
and
the
other
Spaniardes
,
that
he
which
gaue
such
a
great
summe
of
his
owne
will
,
shoulde
haue
a
great
treasure
,
which
shoulde
be
the
ende
and
easing
of
their
traueyles
.
They
make
wise
,
and
pretende
in
wordes
to
depart
:
but
they
returne
at
the
fourth
watch
of
the
morning
,
setting
vpon
the
towne
which
mistrusted
nothing
,
set
it
on
fire
,
whereby
was
burnt
and
slayne
a
great
number
of
people
,
&
by
this
meanes
they
brought
away
in
the
spoyle
fiftie
,
or
threescore
thousand
Castillans
moe
.
The
Cacik
or
Lorde
escaped
without
being
slayne
or
taken
,
and
leuied
incontinent
as
many
of
his
as
he
coulde
.
And
at
the
ende
of
three
or
foure
dayes
,
ouertaketh
the
Spaniardes
whiche
had
taken
from
him
an
hundreth
and
thirtie
,
or
fourtie
thousande
Castillans
,
and
set
vppon
them
valiantly
,
killing
fiftie
Spaniardes
,
and
recouering
all
the
golde
whiche
they
had
taken
from
him
.
The
others
saued
them selues
by
running
away
,
beyng
well
charged
with
blowes
and
wounded
.
Not
long
after
,
diuers
of
the
Spanishe
returne
against
the
saide
Cacik
,
and
discomfite
him
with
an
infinite
number
of
his
people
.
Those
which
were
not
slayne
,
they
put
them
to
the
ordiuarie
bondage
:
in
such
sort
,
as
that
there
is
not
at
this
day
,
neyther
track
nor
token
,
that
there
hath
bin
liuing
there
eyther
people
,
or
so
much
as
one
man
alone
borne
of
woman
within
thirtie
leagues
of
the
lande
,
which
was
before
notably
peopled
and
gouerned
by
diuers
Lordes
.
There
is
no
reconing
able
to
be
made
of
the
murders
which
this
caitiffe
with
his
companie
committed
in
these
realmes
which
he
so
dispeopled
.
Of
the
prouince
of
Nicaragua
.
THe
yeere
a
thousande
,
fiue
hundred
,
twentie
and
two
,
or
twentie
three
,
this
tyraunt
went
farder
into
the
lande
:
to
bring
vnder
his
yoke
the
most
fertile
prouince
of
Nicaragua
,
&
so
in
thither
hee
entred
in
an
euill
houre
.
There
is
no
man
which
is
able
worthely
and
sufficiently
to
speake
of
the
fertiltie
,
healthsomenesse
,
prosperitie
,
and
frequencie
,
of
those
nations
that
there
were
.
It
was
a
thing
wonderfull
to
beholde
,
howe
well
it
was
peopled
,
hauing
townes
of
three
or
foure
leagues
in
length
,
full
of
maruilous
fruites
,
which
fruites
were
also
the
cause
of
the
frequencie
of
the
people
.
These
people
,
for
as
muche
as
the
countrey
was
flatte
and
leuell
,
hauing
no
hilles
where
any
might
hide
them
,
and
for
that
it
was
so
pleasant
and
delectable
,
that
the
natiue
inhabitauntes
coulde
not
abandon
it
but
with
great
heart
griefe
and
difficultie
,
for
which
cause
they
the
rather
endured
and
suffered
grieuous
persecutions
,
supporting
as
muche
as
they
coulde
,
the
tyrannies
and
seruitudes
,
inflicted
by
the
Spanishe
.
Also
for
that
by
their
nature
they
were
verye
softe
natured
and
peaceable
people
,
these
(
I
say
)
this
tyraunt
with
his
mates
made
to
endure
(
that
which
hee
had
vsed
also
to
doe
to
destroy
likewise
other
realmes
)
so
many
dammages
,
so
many
murders
,
so
many
cruelties
,
so
many
slaueries
and
iniquities
,
that
there
is
no
humane
tongue
is
able
to
discipher
them
.
He
sent
fiftie
horsemen
,
and
caused
to
slay
all
the
people
of
this
prouince
,
(
which
is
greater
then
the
countye
of
Rossillon
)
with
the
swoorde
:
in
such
sort
,
as
that
he
left
aliue
,
nor
man
,
nor
woman
,
nor
olde
,
nor
young
for
the
least
cause
in
the
world
:
as
if
they
came
not
incontinent
at
his
commaunde
:
or
if
they
did
not
bring
him
so
many
load
of
Mahis
,
which
signifieth
in
that
country
bread
corne
:
or
if
they
did
not
bring
him
so
many
Indians
to
serue
him
and
others
of
his
company
:
for
the
countrey
lay
leuell
,
as
was
sayde
,
and
no
creature
coulde
escape
his
horses
and
diuelishe
rage
.
He
sent
Spaniardes
to
make
out
rodes
,
that
is
to
say
,
to
go
a
thieuing
into
other
prouinces
:
and
gaue
leaue
to
those
rouers
,
to
carrie
with
them
as
many
Indians
of
this
peaceable
people
as
they
listed
,
and
that
they
shoulde
serue
them
,
whome
they
put
to
the
chayne
,
to
the
ende
they
shoulde
not
giue
ouer
the
burdens
of
three
or
fourescore
poundes
weight
,
wherewith
they
loded
them
,
whereof
it
came
to
passe
oftentimes
that
of
foure
thousand
Indians
,
there
returned
not
home
to
their
housen
sixe
on
liue
:
but
euen
fell
downe
starke
dead
in
the
high
way
:
and
when
any
were
so
wearie
that
they
coulde
march
no
farther
for
the
lieaft
of
their
burdens
,
or
that
some
of
them
fell
sicke
,
or
fainted
for
hunger
or
thyrst
,
because
it
should
not
neede
to
stande
so
long
as
to
vnlocke
the
chaine
,
and
to
make
the
speedier
dispatch
,
hee
cut
off
the
head
from
the
shoulders
,
and
so
the
head
tumbled
downe
one
way
,
and
the
bodie
another
.
Now
consider
with
your selues
,
what
the
other
pore
soules
might
thinke
the
whiles
,
Certainely
when
as
he
vsed
to
speede
out
such
voiages
,
the
Indians
knowing
that
none
in
a
maner
euer
returned
home
again
,
at
parting
one
from
another
they
would
weep
and
sigh
,
saying
:
such
waies
are
the
same
where
as
we
were
wont
to
serue
the
christians
,
&
howbeit
we
traueiled
sore
there
:
yet
that
notwithstanding
we
came
home
again
to
our
housen
,
our
wiues
and
our
children
:
but
nowe
wee
goe
without
hope
euer
to
returne
againe
to
see
them
,
&
to
liue
together
with
them
.
At
a
time
when
he
woulde
make
a
newe
sharing
forth
of
the
Indians
,
because
his
pleasure
was
such
,
yea
men
say
that
it
was
in
deede
to
ridde
the
Indians
,
as
those
to
whome
hee
meant
no
good
at
all
,
but
to
giue
them
away
to
whome
he
sawe
good
:
hee
was
the
cause
that
the
Indians
sowed
not
their
groundes
one
whole
yeeres
continuance
.
So
as
nowe
,
when
they
wanted
bread
,
the
Spaniards
tooke
away
from
the
Indians
their
Mahis
,
which
they
had
in
store
for
prouision
,
to
nourishe
them
and
their
children
:
whereby
there
dyed
of
famine
,
more
then
twentie
or
thirtie
thousande
soules
.
And
it
came
to
passe
,
that
a
woman
fallen
madde
with
the
famin
,
slue
her
sonne
to
eate
him
.
Forasmuch
as
euery
towneshippe
,
and
all
other
places
inhabited
that
the
Spaniardes
had
in
their
subiection
,
was
none
other
then
a
very
garden
of
pleasure
(
as
hath
bin
sayd
)
they
kept
them selues
euery
one
forsooth
in
the
place
escheated
to
him
in
partition
(
or
as
they
vse
to
speake
)
giuen
him
in
commaund
,
and
did
their
affayres
,
nourishing
themselues
with
the
goods
and
prouisions
of
the
poore
Indians
.
In
this
wise
did
they
take
the
landes
and
inheritaunces
perticuler
wherewith
they
sustayned
themselues
,
so
as
the
Spaniardes
kept
in
their
owne
houses
,
all
the
Indians
,
Lords
,
old
men
,
women
,
and
children
,
causing
them
to
serue
them
day
and
night
without
rest
,
euen
to
the
infantes
as
soone
as
they
coulde
but
goe
,
to
put
them
to
the
greatest
thing
they
were
able
to
doe
:
yea
and
to
greater
thinges
then
they
were
able
to
doe
.
And
thus
haue
they
cousumed
and
abolished
,
and
doe
yet
euery
day
vnto
this
present
,
consume
and
abolish
the
few
remayning
behind
,
not
permitting
them
to
retayn
house
nor
ought
els
that
is
their
owne
.
Wherein
they
may
vaunt
to
haue
surmounted
them selues
,
in
their
owne
iniquities
and
vnrighteousnesses
by
them
wrought
in
Hispaniola
.
They
haue
discomfited
and
oppressed
in
this
prouince
a
great
number
of
people
,
and
hastened
their
death
in
cawsing
them
to
beare
boordes
and
tymber
vnto
the
hauen
thirtie
leagues
distance
,
to
make
shippes
with
:
and
sent
them
to
goe
seeke
honnie
and
waxe
amiddest
the
mountaines
,
where
the
Tigres
deuoured
them
:
Yea
they
haue
laden
women
with
childe
,
and
women
new
deliuered
or
lying
in
,
with
burdens
enough
for
beasts
.
The
greatest
plague
whiche
hath
most
dispeopled
this
prouince
,
hath
beene
the
licence
which
the
gouernour
gaue
to
the
Spaniardes
,
to
demaunde
or
exact
of
the
Cacikes
and
Lordes
of
the
countrey
slaues
.
They
did
giue
them
euery
foure
or
fiue
moneths
,
or
as
often
times
as
euery
one
coulde
obtayne
licence
of
the
gouernour
fiftie
slaues
:
with
threatninges
,
that
if
they
gaue
them
not
,
they
woulde
burne
them
aliue
,
or
cause
them
to
bee
eaten
with
dogges
.
Nowe
ordinarily
the
Indians
doe
not
keepe
slaues
,
and
it
is
muche
if
one
Cacike
doe
keepe
two
,
three
,
or
foure
:
Wherefore
to
serue
this
turne
,
they
went
to
theyr
subiectes
,
and
tooke
first
all
the
Orphelius
,
and
after
wards
they
exacted
of
him
that
had
two
children
one
,
and
of
him
that
had
three
,
two
:
and
in
this
maner
was
the
Carike
,
fayne
to
furnishe
still
to
the
number
that
the
tyrane
imposed
,
with
the
great
weeping
and
crying
of
the
people
:
for
they
are
people
that
doe
loue
(
as
it
seemeth
)
tenderly
their
children
.
And
for
because
that
this
was
done
continually
,
they
dispeopled
from
the
yeere
23.
vnto
the
yeere
33.
all
this
realme
.
For
there
went
for
sixe
or
seuen
yeeres
space
,
fiue
or
sixe
shippes
at
a
time
,
carrying
foorth
great
numbers
of
those
Indians
,
for
to
sell
them
for
slaues
at
Ioanama
and
Peru
:
where
they
all
dyed
not
long
after
.
For
it
is
a
thing
prooued
and
experimented
a
thousande
times
,
that
when
the
Indians
are
transported
from
their
naturall
countrey
,
they
soone
ende
their
liues
:
besides
that
these
giue
them
not
their
sustenance
,
neyther
yet
dimmish
they
of
their
toyle
,
as
neyther
doe
they
buy
them
,
for
ought
else
but
to
toyle
.
They
haue
by
this
maner
of
doing
drawen
out
of
this
prouince
of
the
Indies
,
whome
they
haue
made
slaues
,
being
as
free
borne
as
I
am
,
more
then
siue
hundreth
thousande
soules
.
And
by
the
diuelishe
warres
which
the
Spanishe
haue
made
on
them
,
and
the
hidious
thraledome
that
they
haue
laid
vpon
them
,
they
haue
brought
to
their
deaths
,
other
fiftie
or
threescore
thousande
persons
,
and
doe
yet
dayly
make
hauocke
of
them
at
this
present
.
Al
these
slaughters
haue
been
accomplished
within
the
space
of
fourteene
yeeres
.
There
may
be
left
at
this
day
in
all
this
prouinces
of
Nicaragua
,
the
number
of
a
foure
or
fiue
thousande
persons
,
whiche
they
also
cause
to
die
as
yet
euery
day
,
through
bondages
and
oppressions
ordinarily
and
personall
,
hauing
bin
the
countrey
the
most
peopled
in
the
worlde
,
as
I
haue
already
saide
.
Of
newe
Spayne
.
IN
the
yeere
one
thousande
,
fiue
hundred
and
seuenteene
,
was
newe
Spaine
discouered
:
at
the
discouerie
whereof
were
committed
great
disorders
and
slaughters
of
the
Indians
,
by
those
which
had
the
doing
of
that
exployit
.
The
yeere
a
thousande
,
fiue
hundred
,
and
eyghteene
,
there
went
Spanish
Christians
(
as
they
terme
them selues
,
)
to
rob
and
slay
,
notwithstanding
that
they
sayde
they
went
to
people
the
countrey
.
Sithence
that
yere
,
a
thousande
,
fiue
hundred
,
&
eyghteen
,
vnto
this
present
the
yeere
a
thousande
,
fiue
hundreth
,
fourtie
two
,
the
vniust
dealings
,
the
violencie
,
and
the
tyrannies
which
the
Spaniardes
haue
wrought
against
the
Indians
,
are
mounted
to
the
highest
degree
of
extremitie
:
those
selfe
same
Spaniardes
,
hauing
thorowly
lost
the
feare
of
God
,
and
of
the
king
,
and
forgotten
themselues
.
For
the
discomfitures
,
cruelties
,
slaughters
,
spoyles
,
the
destructions
of
Cities
,
pillages
,
violences
,
and
tyrannies
which
they
haue
made
in
so
many
realms
,
and
so
great
,
hath
bin
such
&
so
horrible
,
that
all
the
things
which
we
haue
spoken
of
are
nothing
in
comparison
of
those
which
haue
bin
done
and
executed
from
the
yere
1518.
vnto
the
yere
1542.
&
as
yet
at
this
time
,
this
moneth
current
of
September
,
are
in
doing
&
committing
the
most
grieuousest
,
&
the
most
abominablest
of
al
:
in
such
sort
that
the
rule
whiche
we
set
down
before
is
verified
:
That
is
,
that
from
the
beginning
they
haue
alwaies
proceeded
from
euil
to
worse
,
&
haue
gone
beyond
themselues
in
the
most
greatest
disorders
&
diuelish
doings
.
In
such
wise
,
as
that
since
the
first
entring
into
new
Spaine
,
which
was
on
the
eight
day
of
April
,
in
the
18.
yeere
,
vnto
the
13.
yeere
,
which
make
12.
yeeres
complete
:
the
slaughters
&
the
destructions
haue
neuer
ceased
,
which
the
bloodie
and
cruel
handes
of
the
Spaniardes
haue
continually
executed
in
400.
and
50.
leagues
of
land
or
there
about
in
compasse
,
round
about
Mexico
,
&
the
neighbour
regions
round
about
,
such
as
the
which
might
contaynt
4.
or
5.
great
realmes
,
as
great
&
a
great
deale
farre
fertiler
then
is
Spain
.
All
this
countrey
was
more
peopled
with
inhabitantes
,
then
Toledo
,
and
Seuill
,
and
Valadolyd
,
and
Sauagoce
,
with
Barcelona
.
For
that
there
hath
not
beene
commonly
in
those
cities
,
nor
neuer
were
such
a
worlde
of
people
,
when
they
haue
beene
peopled
with
the
most
,
as
there
was
then
in
the
sayde
countrey
,
which
contayneth
in
the
whole
compasse
more
then
one
thousande
eyght
hundred
leagues
:
during
the
time
of
the
aboue
mentioned
twelue
yeeres
,
the
Spaniardes
haue
slaine
&
done
to
death
in
the
sayd
hundred
&
fiftie
leagues
of
land
what
men
,
what
women
,
what
young
and
litle
children
,
more
then
foure
millions
of
soules
,
with
the
dint
of
the
sworde
and
speare
,
&
by
fire
,
during
(
I
say
)
the
conquests
(
as
they
call
them
)
but
rather
in
deede
during
the
routes
of
barbarous
tyrantes
,
suche
as
are
condemned
not
onely
by
the
law
of
God
,
but
also
by
alllaws
of
man
,
and
are
worser
then
those
which
are
done
by
the
Turke
to
destroy
the
church
of
Christ
.
Neyther
yet
doe
I
here
comprise
those
,
whom
they
haue
slayne
,
and
do
slay
as
yet
euery
day
,
in
the
aforesaid
slauerie
and
oppression
ordinary
.
There
is
no
tongue
,
skill
,
knowledge
,
nor
industrie
of
man
,
which
is
able
to
recount
the
particularities
of
the
dreadfull
dooings
,
which
these
arrand
enemies
,
yea
deadly
enemies
of
mankinde
haue
put
in
vre
generally
throughout
and
in
diuers
parts
,
and
at
diuers
times
within
the
saide
compasse
of
grounde
,
specially
some
of
the
deedes
done
,
because
of
their
circumstances
whiche
make
them
become
the
more
haynous
,
can
not
be
well
as
it
ought
to
be
disciphred
by
any
diligence
,
leasure
,
or
quoting
what
soeuer
that
may
be
thereto
employed
.
Howebeit
I
will
rehearse
some
things
of
certayne
parties
,
but
vnder
protestation
,
&
as
if
I
were
sworne
solemnly
to
tell
the
trueth
,
that
is
,
that
I
doe
beleeue
that
I
shal
not
when
I
haue
all
done
,
touch
one
only
point
of
a
thousande
.
Of
newe
Spaine
in
particular
.
Amongst
other
murderers
&
massacres
they
committed
this
one
which
I
am
now
to
speak
of
,
in
a
great
citie
more
than
of
a
thirtie
thousande
householdes
,
which
is
called
Cholula
:
that
is
,
that
,
comming
before
them
the
Lords
of
the
countrey
and
places
nere
adioyning
,
and
first
and
formost
the
Priestes
with
their
chiefe
high
priest
in
procession
,
to
receiue
the
Spaniardes
with
great
solemnitie
and
reuerence
,
so
conducting
them
in
the
middest
of
them
,
towardes
their
lodgings
in
the
citie
,
in
the
housen
and
place
of
the
Lorde
,
or
other
principall
Lordes
of
the
Citie
:
the
Spaniardes
aduised
with
themselues
to
make
a
massarre
,
or
a
chastise
(
as
they
speake
)
to
the
ende
,
to
raise
and
plant
a
dread
of
their
cruelties
in
euery
corner
of
all
that
countrey
.
Nowe
this
hath
been
alwayes
their
customary
maner
of
doyng
,
in
euery
the
regions
which
they
haue
entred
into
,
to
execute
incontinent
vpon
their
first
arriuall
,
some
notable
cruell
butcherie
,
to
the
ende
,
that
those
poore
and
innocent
lambes
should
tremble
for
feare
whiche
they
should
haue
of
them
:
in
this
wise
they
sent
first
to
sommon
all
the
Lordes
and
Noble
men
of
the
citie
,
and
of
all
the
places
subiect
vnto
the
same
citie
:
who
so
soone
as
they
came
to
speake
with
the
captyne
of
the
Spaniardes
,
were
incontinent
apprehended
before
that
anye
bodye
might
perceiue
the
matter
,
to
bee
able
therevppon
to
beare
tydinges
thereof
vnto
others
.
Then
were
demaunded
of
them
fiue
or
sixe
thousande
Indians
,
to
carry
the
loadings
and
carriages
of
the
Spaniardes
:
which
Indians
came
forth
with
,
and
were
bestowed
into
the
base
courtes
of
the
Housen
.
It
was
a
pitifull
case
to
see
these
poore
folke
,
what
time
they
made
them
redy
to
beare
the
carriages
of
the
Spaniarde
.
They
come
all
naked
,
onely
their
secrete
partes
couered
,
hauing
euery
one
vpon
their
shoulder
a
nette
with
a
small
deale
of
victuall
:
they
howe
them selues
euery
one
,
and
hold
their
backes
cowred
down
like
a
sort
of
silly
lambes
,
presenting
them selues
to
the
swords
,
and
thus
being
all
assembled
in
the
base
court
together
with
others
,
one
part
of
the
Spanishe
all
armed
,
bestowe
them selues
at
the
gates
to
hemme
them
in
,
whiles
the
rest
put
these
poore
sheepe
to
the
edge
of
the
sworde
and
the
speares
,
in
such
sort
,
that
there
coulde
not
scape
away
one
onely
person
,
but
that
hee
was
cruelly
put
to
death
:
sauing
that
after
a
two
or
three
dayes
,
you
might
haue
seene
come
forth
sundry
all
couerred
with
blood
whiche
had
〈◊〉
and
saued
them selues
vnder
the
dead
bodies
of
their
fellowes
,
and
nowe
presenting
themselues
before
the
Spaniardes
,
asking
them
mercy
and
the
faiung
of
their
liues
;
they
founde
in
them
no
parte
,
nor
compassion
any
whit
at
all
but
were
all
hewed
in
peeces
.
All
the
Lordes
whiche
were
aboue
and
vnderneath
were
all
bounde
,
the
Captayne
commaunding
there
to
hee
brent
quicke
being
bounde
vnto
stakes
pitched
into
the
grounde
.
Howe
be
it
one
Lorde
,
which
might
bee
peraduenture
the
principall
and
king
of
the
countrey
saued
him selfe
,
and
cast
him selfe
with
thirtie
or
fourtie
other
menne
into
a
temple
thereby
,
which
was
as
good
vnto
them
as
a
forte
,
whiche
they
call
in
their
language
,
qewe
:
and
there
be
defended
him selfe
a
good
part
of
the
day
.
But
the
Spaniards
,
whose
handes
nothing
can
escape
specially
armed
for
the
warre
,
cast
fire
on
the
temple
,
and
burned
all
those
which
were
within
.
Who
cast
out
these
voyces
and
cries
,
O
yee
euill
men
!
O
ye
euill
men
!
What
displeasure
haue
wee
done
you
?
why
doe
yee
slay
vs
?
Goe
.
Goe
you
shall
come
at
Mexico
:
where
our
Soueraigne
Lorde
Mortensuma
shall
take
vengeance
of
you
.
It
is
reported
that
as
the
Spaniardes
played
this
gay
play
in
the
base
court
,
putting
to
the
edge
of
the
sword
a
fiue
or
sixe
thousand
men
,
their
captaine
hauing
his
heart
all
in
a
Iollitie
sang
.
Mira
Nero
de
Tarpeya
à
Roma
como
seardias
Gritos
,
dan
ninos
,
y
vie●os
:
y
el
de
nada
se
dolia
:
That
is
to
say
,
Fro
Tarpey
top
,
dan
Nero
gan
see
Roome
all
flaming
brenne
,
Both
young
and
old
cry
out
,
the
whiles
his
heart
did
neuer
yerne
.
THey
made
also
another
great
butcherie
in
the
Citie
of
Tapeaca
;
whiche
was
greater
and
of
more
number
of
householdes
,
and
more
people
inhabiting
then
in
the
citie
afore
sor●e
.
They
siue
here
with
the
sharpe
of
the
sword
,
an
infinite
number
of
people
,
with
great
circumstances
&
particularties
of
cruelties
.
From
Cholula
they
went
to
Mexico
.
The
king
Motensuma
sent
to
meete
them
a
thousande
of
presentes
,
and
Lordes
,
and
people
,
making
ioy
and
mirth
by
the
way
.
And
at
the
entry
of
the
cawsie
of
Mexico
,
whiche
reacheth
two
leagues
in
length
,
he
sent
also
his
brother
;
accompanied
with
a
great
number
of
honorable
Lordes
,
bearing
with
them
rich
presents
,
gold
,
siluer
,
&
apparell
:
&
at
the
barres
of
the
citie
,
the
king
in
person
with
all
his
great
court
,
came
to
receiue
them
,
beeing
carried
in
a
lighter
of
golde
,
and
them
accompanied
vnto
the
palace
which
hee
had
caused
to
bee
made
ready
for
them
.
The
selfe
same
very
day
,
as
some
haue
tolde
me
the
which
were
then
and
there
present
,
they
tooke
by
a
certayne
dissimulation
the
great
king
Moteusuma
,
as
he
mistrusted
nothing
,
and
ordained
fourescore
men
to
keepe
him
.
Afterwardes
,
they
put
giues
on
his
feete
.
But
letting
all
this
passe
,
in
the
which
there
were
notable
poyntes
to
speake
of
,
I
will
onely
rehearse
one
which
was
singuler
wrought
by
th●se
tirantes
.
The
Captaine
general
of
the
Spanishe
was
gone
to
them
sea
porte
to
take
another
Spanishe
Captayne
,
which
came
against
in
warre
:
and
hauing
lefte
another
vnder
captayne
in
his
roome
,
with
a
fewe
more
then
an
hundreth
men
to
keepe
the
sayde
king
Motensuma
:
these
same
aduised
with
them selues
to
doe
another
thing
woorthy
the
note
,
to
the
ende
,
to
encrease
and
augment
more
and
more
in
all
those
regions
,
the
awe
which
they
had
of
them
:
a
practise
and
stratageme
which
(
as
I
sayde
before
)
they
haue
often
vsed
.
All
this
meane
while
the
Indians
,
the
common
people
,
and
the
Lordes
of
the
whole
Citie
sought
none
other
thing
,
saue
onely
to
shewe
pleasure
and
pastime
to
their
Lorde
which
was
deteyned
prisoner
.
And
amongest
other
sportes
which
they
made
him
:
were
their
friskes
and
daunces
whiche
they
made
in
the
euening
thorowe
out
all
the
high
streetes
and
markette
places
,
which
daunces
,
they
call
Mitotes
,
as
in
the
iles
they
call
them
Areytos
.
The
do
weare
in
these
friskes
all
their
riche
furniture
,
their
best
gorgious
attyre
,
and
their
iewels
,
despising
them selues
to
liking
in
all
thinges
,
for
these
are
the
greatest
signes
of
ioy
and
festiuitie
that
they
doe
vse
.
Nowe
at
this
time
,
the
nobilitis
also
,
and
princes
of
the
blood
royall
,
eche
one
after
his
degree
kept
their
reuels
and
feastes
at
the
neerest
vnto
the
house
where
was
deceyned
prisoner
their
soueraigne
.
Ioyning
vnto
the
walles
of
the
saide
palace
,
were
there
more
then
two
thousande
youthes
,
Lordes
children
,
which
were
the
flower
of
the
nobilitie
of
all
the
state
of
Morensuma
.
Against
those
made
out
the
captayne
of
the
Spaniardes
with
a
troupe
of
souldiers
,
sending
the
others
vnto
other
places
of
the
citie
where
the
frisks
and
daunces
were
kept
,
and
all
making
wise
onely
to
go
see
them
.
The
captayne
had
giuen
in
charge
,
that
at
a
certayne
appointed
houre
,
they
should
all
cast
them
vpon
those
dauncers
,
and
hee
himselfe
for
his
own
part
,
casting
himselfe
into
the
thronge
,
the
Indians
mistrusting
nothing
,
but
onely
intending
their
disport
,
hee
saith
:
Saynttiago
,
let
vs
amongst
,
them
,
&
vpon
them
sirs
.
And
thus
their
arming
swords
in
their
fistes
,
they
began
to
rip
these
bodies
naked
and
delicate
,
and
to
shed
that
blood
gentle
and
noble
,
in
such
sort
,
as
that
they
left
not
a
man
aliue
.
The
others
performed
the
like
in
other
places
,
a
thing
which
set
all
those
realmes
and
nations
in
a
fright
&
extreme
desperation
,
and
whereof
as
long
as
the
world
shall
last
,
they
will
neuer
lin
(
if
themselues
do
not
decay
)
to
lament
,
and
recorde
in
their
Areytos
&
solemne
meetings
,
as
in
rime
these
calamities
,
and
the
spoile
of
the
spring
of
their
ancient
nobilitie
,
of
the
which
they
are
wont
to
vaunt
themselues
&
glory
very
much
.
The
Indians
seeing
so
great
an
iniquitie
,
and
a
crueltie
neuer
heard
of
the
like
,
made
against
so
many
innocentes
without
any
cause
:
specially
hauing
put
vp
quietly
the
imprisonment
&
that
no
lesse
wrongfull
of
their
soueraigne
Lorde
,
who
also
had
commaunded
them
not
to
make
warre
vpon
the
Spaniardes
:
all
the
citie
put
them selues
in
armes
,
whervpon
the
Spaniards
being
assaulted
and
many
of
them
hurt
,
with
much
a
do
might
they
escape
,
but
set
a
dagger
on
the
chest
of
the
brest
of
the
prisoner
Motensuma
to
kill
him
,
if
he
laied
not
him selfe
out
at
a
gallery
or
winddowe
,
to
command
the
Indians
that
they
should
not
beset
the
house
,
&
they
should
keepe
them
quiet
.
The
Indians
taking
no
care
as
then
of
obeying
,
aduised
them
to
chuse
a
L.
&
captayn
from
amongst
them selues
to
conduct
their
battals
.
And
for
as
much
as
the
Captayn
which
was
gone
to
the
hauen
,
was
returned
victorious
,
leading
with
him
more
Spaniardes
then
he
had
carried
foorth
,
and
for
that
hee
was
nowe
neere
at
hande
,
the
combate
ceased
about
a
three
or
foure
dayes
,
vntill
such
time
as
hee
was
entred
the
towne
.
Then
the
Indians
assembled
an
infinite
number
of
people
out
of
all
the
countrey
,
and
skirmished
in
such
wise
,
and
so
long
a
season
,
that
the
Spanish
thought
they
should
al
die
on
the
place
,
wherefore
they
deliberated
to
abandon
the
citie
for
one
night
.
That
which
their
disseighu
being
knowen
to
the
Indians
,
they
slewe
of
them
a
great
number
vppon
the
bridges
of
the
Marshes
in
a
warre
most
rightfull
,
and
most
lawfull
for
the
causes
most
righteous
which
they
had
as
hath
been
saide
:
the
whiche
euery
reasonable
and
true
dealing
man
will
mayneteyne
for
good
.
Soone
after
,
the
Spanishe
hauing
realied
themselues
,
the
combat
with
the
Citie
renewed
,
where
the
Spaniardes
made
an
horrible
and
ghastly
butcherie
of
the
Indians
,
and
slue
an
infinite
of
people
,
and
brent
aliue
the
great
Lords
.
After
these
great
and
abhominable
tyrannies
committed
in
the
Citie
of
Mexico
,
and
in
other
cities
,
and
the
countrey
renne
,
fifteene
,
and
twentie
leagues
compasse
of
Mexico
:
this
tyrannie
and
pestilence
aduaunced
it selfe
forwarde
,
to
waste
also
,
infect
,
and
lay
desolate
the
prouince
of
Panuco
.
It
was
a
thing
to
bee
wondered
at
of
the
worlde
,
of
people
that
there
were
,
and
the
spoyles
and
slaughters
there
done
.
Afterwarde
they
wasted
also
after
the
selfe
maner
,
all
the
prouince
of
Tuttepeke
,
and
the
prouince
of
Ipelingo
,
and
the
prouince
of
Columa
:
eche
prouince
conteyning
more
grounde
then
the
realme
of
Leon
&
of
Castile
.
It
shoulde
bee
a
thing
very
difficulte
,
yea
,
impossible
to
speake
or
recount
the
discomfitures
,
the
slaughters
,
and
the
cruelties
,
which
they
there
committed
:
and
woulde
cause
a
great
remorse
vnto
the
hearers
.
Here
is
to
be
noted
,
that
the
title
wherewith
they
entred
,
and
beganne
to
make
hauocke
of
all
these
harmelesse
and
silly
Indians
,
and
haue
dispeopled
that
countrey
,
which
shoulde
haue
caused
a
great
reioycing
to
all
those
which
shoulde
bee
in
trueth
Christians
,
beyng
so
peopled
as
they
were
:
was
to
say
that
they
shoulde
come
and
put
them selues
in
subiection
,
to
serue
the
king
of
Spain
,
otherwise
that
they
woulde
kill
them
,
or
make
them
slaues
.
And
those
which
came
not
incontinent
to
satisfie
their
demaundes
so
vniust
,
and
did
not
put
them selues
into
the
handes
of
men
so
vniust
,
cruell
,
and
beastly
,
they
called
them
rebelles
,
as
those
which
had
lift
vp
them selues
agaynst
the
kinges
Maiestie
,
and
for
such
they
accused
them
to
the
king
our
soueraigne
Lorde
:
the
blinde
vnderstandings
of
those
which
gouerned
the
Indians
,
beeing
not
able
to
comprehende
nor
perceyue
this
much
,
which
in
their
lawes
is
more
cleerely
taught
then
any
other
principle
of
Lawe
,
that
is
,
that
none
can
bee
reputed
a
rebell
,
if
first
hee
be
not
a
subiect
.
Nowe
let
Christians
,
and
those
which
haue
any
perceyuerance
consider
with
them selues
,
if
suche
cases
can
prepare
and
informe
the
mindes
of
any
nations
whatsoeuer
liuing
in
their
countrey
in
assurance
,
and
not
thinking
to
owe
any
thing
to
any
person
,
hauing
their
owne
naturall
liege
Lordes
whom
they
serue
and
obey
,
suddenly
to
come
and
tell
them
tydings
:
Put
you
vnder
the
obeysance
of
a
king
a
stranger
,
whom
ye
neuer
sawe
,
nor
neuer
hearde
of
before
:
otherwise
knowe
yee
that
wee
will
rent
yee
incontinent
all
to
peeces
,
specially
when
it
is
knowen
by
experience
that
they
doe
it
in
deede
as
soone
as
it
is
but
sayde
.
And
that
which
is
farre
more
frightfull
,
they
take
those
,
which
doe
yeelde
them selues
to
obey
,
to
put
them
into
a
moste
grieuous
bondage
,
in
the
whiche
there
are
toyles
incredible
,
and
tormentes
greater
and
of
longer
continuance
then
those
same
of
them
which
are
excuted
by
the
swoorde
,
for
in
the
ende
they
perishe
,
they
,
their
wiues
,
their
children
,
and
their
whole
generation
.
And
put
the
case
,
that
through
the
threates
and
frightes
aforesaide
,
those
peoples
,
or
any
others
whosoeuer
doe
come
to
obey
and
acknowledge
the
dominion
of
a
straunger
king
:
doe
not
these
blunderers
see
,
being
altogether
benummed
with
ambition
and
deuelish
couetousnes
,
that
they
winne
not
a
mite
of
right
,
forasmuche
as
so
it
is
,
that
it
is
caused
vpon
frightes
and
terrours
which
might
bee
able
to
slake
men
the
constantest
and
the
best
aduised
:
and
that
by
the
lawes
of
nature
,
man
,
and
God
,
it
hath
no
more
force
then
a
handfull
of
winde
,
to
make
any
thing
auaylable
to
any
purpose
whatsoeuer
,
sauing
the
punishment
and
obligation
which
abideth
them
in
the
bottom
of
hel
.
I
passe
ouer
the
losses
and
dammages
which
they
doe
to
the
king
,
when
as
they
spoyle
his
realmes
,
and
bring
to
nought
(
as
much
as
in
them
lyeth
)
all
the
right
which
they
haue
in
the
Indies
.
These
are
nowe
the
seruices
,
whiche
the
Spaniardes
haue
done
,
and
as
yet
doe
at
this
houre
vnto
the
aforesaide
kinges
,
and
soueraigne
Lords
,
vnder
the
colour
of
this
gallant
title
,
so
rightfull
,
and
so
smoothly
garnished
.
This
Captayne
tyraunt
,
with
this
gorgeous
and
pretended
title
,
dispatched
two
other
Captaynes
,
as
very
tyrauntes
and
farre
more
cruell
,
and
lesse
pitifull
then
him selfe
,
into
greate
realmes
most
flourishing
,
and
most
fertile
,
and
full
of
people
,
to
witte
,
the
realme
of
Guatimala
,
which
lieth
to
the
seawarde
on
the
South
side
,
and
the
same
of
Naco
,
and
Honduras
,
otherwise
called
Guaymura
,
which
coasteth
on
the
sea
on
the
North
side
,
confronting
and
confining
the
one
with
the
other
,
three
hundred
leagues
distaunce
from
Mexico
.
Hee
sent
the
one
by
land
,
and
the
other
by
sea
:
both
the
one
and
the
other
carried
with
them
a
maynie
of
trowpes
to
serue
on
horse
backe
and
a
foote
.
I
say
the
trueth
,
that
of
the
mischieues
which
these
two
haue
wrought
,
and
principally
hee
whiche
went
to
Guatimala
(
for
that
other
dyed
soone
after
of
an
euill
death
,
)
there
might
be
made
a
great
booke
,
of
so
many
villanies
,
of
so
manie
slaughters
,
so
many
desolations
,
and
of
so
many
outrages
and
brutishe
vniustices
,
as
were
able
to
affright
the
age
present
and
to
come
.
For
certayne
this
man
surpassed
all
the
others
,
present
,
and
gone
before
,
in
quantitie
and
in
number
,
as
well
for
the
abominations
whiche
hee
committed
,
as
for
the
peoples
and
countreys
whiche
he
layde
waste
and
desert
.
All
the
which
thinges
were
infinite
.
Hee
which
went
by
sea
committed
exceeding
pillinges
,
cruelties
,
&
disorders
amongst
the
people
on
the
sea
coast
:
before
whom
some
comming
with
presents
from
the
realme
of
Yucatane
whiche
is
the
high
way
to
the
aforesaid
realme
of
Naro
&
Guaimura
,
towards
the
which
they
went
:
when
he
came
vnto
them
he
sente
captaynes
,
&
a
many
of
men
of
armes
through
all
that
land
,
whiche
went
sacking
,
slaughtering
,
&
destroying
as
many
people
as
there
were
to
be
found
,
&
principally
one
,
who
with
three
hundred
more
,
hauing
mutined
and
rebelled
,
and
setting
himselfe
into
the
countrey
towardes
Guatimala
,
went
spoyling
and
burning
all
the
towns
that
he
found
,
in
killing
and
robbing
the
people
inhabitants
of
them
.
That
which
he
did
of
a
set
purpose
,
in
more
then
an
hundred
and
twentie
leagues
of
the
land
,
to
the
end
,
that
if
any
had
sent
after
him
,
those
which
should
come
,
shoulde
finde
the
countrey
dispeopled
and
debelled
,
and
that
they
were
so
slain
of
the
Indians
,
in
reuenge
of
the
dammages
and
spoiles
by
them
made
.
After
whome
haue
succeeded
sundry
others
most
cruell
tyrantes
,
the
which
with
their
slaughters
and
dreadful
cruelties
,
and
by
bringing
the
Indians
into
thraldrome
,
whom
afterwards
they
soulde
vnto
those
who
carried
them
with
their
shippings
of
wine
,
garments
,
and
other
things
,
and
by
reason
of
the
tyrannicall
seruitude
ordinary
,
since
the
yeere
a
thousande
,
fiue
hundred
,
twentie
foure
,
vntill
the
yeere
1535.
haue
layd
waste
those
same
prouinces
and
realmes
of
Naro
and
Honduras
,
the
which
resembled
a
paradise
of
pleasures
:
and
were
more
peopled
,
frequented
,
and
inhabited
,
then
any
countrey
of
the
worlde
:
and
nowe
of
late
we
comming
a
long
thereby
,
haue
seene
them
so
dispeopled
and
destroied
,
that
who
so
should
see
them
,
his
heart
would
cleaue
for
sorrowe
,
ware
he
neuer
so
flintie
.
They
haue
slaine
within
these
eleuen
yeeres
,
more
then
two
Millions
of
soules
,
hauing
not
left
in
more
then
an
hundreth
leagues
of
the
countrey
square
,
but
two
thousande
persons
,
whome
they
slay
as
yet
dayly
in
the
sayde
ordinarie
bondage
.
Nowe
let
vs
returne
to
write
of
the
great
tyraunt
and
Captayne
,
which
went
to
Guatimala
,
(
who
,
as
hath
been
sayde
,
exceeded
all
the
aforepassed
,
and
is
comparable
to
all
those
,
which
are
at
this
day
)
from
the
prouinces
neere
to
Mexico
,
(
according
as
him selfe
wrote
in
a
letter
to
the
principall
tyraunt
whiche
had
sente
him
)
distaunte
from
the
realme
of
Guatimala
400.
leagues
,
(
keeping
the
way
by
him
traced
)
&
as
he
went
,
slu
,
robbed
,
burned
and
destroyed
all
the
countrey
,
wheresoeuer
he
be
came
,
vnder
the
shadow
of
title
aboue
mantioned
,
saying
:
that
they
should
submit
themselues
vnto
them
,
that
is
to
say
,
vnto
men
so
vnnatural
,
so
wicked
,
and
so
cruell
:
in
the
name
of
the
king
of
Spaine
,
who
was
vnto
them
vnknowen
,
and
of
whom
they
had
neuer
hearde
speake
:
and
the
which
those
nations
there
esteemed
more
vniust
and
more
cruell
then
they
his
men
were
.
And
the
tyrauntes
giuing
vnto
them
no
respect
of
time
to
deliberace
,
they
fling
vpon
the
poore
folke
,
in
a
maner
as
soone
as
the
message
was
done
,
putting
all
to
fire
and
blood
.
Of
the
Prouince
and
realme
of
Guatimala
.
NO
sooner
arriued
hee
into
this
saide
realme
:
but
that
he
beganne
with
great
slaughter
of
the
inhabitaunces
.
This
notwithstanding
the
chiefe
Lorde
came
to
receiue
him
,
being
caried
in
a
lighter
,
with
trumpettes
and
tabours
,
reioycinges
,
and
disportes
,
accompanied
with
a
great
number
of
the
Lordes
of
the
citie
of
Vitlatan
,
head
citie
of
the
whole
realme
,
dooing
them
also
seruice
with
all
they
had
,
but
specially
in
giuing
them
foode
abundantly
,
&
whatsoeuer
they
demaunded
besids
.
The
Spanish
lodged
this
night
without
the
citie
,
forasmuche
as
the
same
seemed
vnto
them
strong
,
and
there
might
bee
thereby
daunger
.
This
Captayne
called
to
him
the
next
morrowe
the
chiefe
Lorde
,
with
other
great
Lordes
,
who
beeing
come
as
meeke
sheepe
,
hee
apprehended
them
al
,
&
commaunded
them
to
giue
him
certayne
summes
of
golde
.
They
answering
that
they
had
none
,
forasmuch
as
the
countrey
yeelded
none
:
hee
commaundeth
incontinent
to
burne
them
aliue
,
without
hauing
committed
any
crime
whatsoeuer
,
and
without
any
other
forme
of
proces
or
sentence
.
As
the
Lordes
of
all
these
prouinces
perceiued
,
that
they
had
burned
their
soueraigne
Lordes
,
onely
because
they
gaue
them
no
golde
,
they
fledde
all
to
the
mountaynes
,
commaunding
their
subiectes
to
goe
to
the
Spaniardes
,
and
to
serue
them
as
their
Lords
,
but
that
they
should
not
discouer
them
,
nor
giue
them
intelligence
where
they
were
.
With
this
,
loe
all
the
people
of
the
countrey
,
presenting
them
,
and
protesting
to
bee
theirs
,
and
to
serue
them
as
their
Lordes
:
The
Captayne
made
answere
that
hee
woulde
not
accept
of
them
,
but
that
hee
woulde
kill
them
if
they
tolde
not
where
were
their
Lordes
.
The
Indians
answered
,
they
could
not
tell
ought
:
but
as
touching
them selues
they
were
content
,
that
they
shoulde
employ
them
to
their
seruice
,
with
their
wiues
and
children
:
and
that
they
should
vse
their
housen
,
and
that
there
they
might
kill
,
or
doe
what
so
euer
them
pleased
.
It
is
a
wonderfull
thing
,
that
the
Spaniardes
went
to
their
villages
and
borrowes
,
and
finding
there
these
silly
people
at
their
worke
,
with
their
wiues
and
children
,
neyther
misdoubting
any
thing
they
pearsed
them
with
their
Borespeares
,
and
hackled
them
to
peeces
.
They
came
to
one
borrowe
great
&
mightie
,
which
helde
it selfe
more
assured
then
any
other
,
because
of
their
innocencie
:
whome
the
Spanishe
layde
desolate
in
a
maner
all
whole
,
in
the
space
of
two
houres
,
putting
to
the
edge
of
the
sword
,
children
,
with
women
,
and
aged
persons
,
and
all
those
which
could
not
escape
by
flying
.
The
Indians
seeing
that
by
their
humilitie
,
by
their
presentes
and
patience
,
they
could
not
pacifie
nor
mitigate
the
madmoode
,
and
enraged
heartes
of
their
enemies
,
and
that
without
any
reason
,
or
shewe
of
reason
,
they
were
hackt
in
peeces
:
and
seeing
likewise
that
they
were
sure
to
die
ere
long
:
they
deuised
to
assemble
and
realye
themselues
to
die
all
in
warre
,
and
auenge
themselues
the
best
that
they
could
vpon
,
enemies
so
cruel
and
diuelishe
:
knowing
also
well
enough
them selues
without
weapons
,
starke
naked
,
weake
,
and
on
foote
,
and
suche
as
coulde
by
no
meanes
preuayle
or
carrie
away
the
victory
,
but
that
in
the
ende
they
shoulde
be
destroyed
:
they
aduised
between
them
to
digge
certayne
ditches
in
the
middest
of
the
wayes
,
to
make
their
horses
tomble
into
,
and
pearcing
their
bellies
with
pikes
sharpned
and
brent
at
one
ende
,
there
bestowed
of
purpose
,
and
couered
ouer
so
orderly
with
greene
turfe
,
that
it
seemed
there
was
no
such
matter
.
There
fell
in
horses
once
or
twise
:
for
the
Spaniardes
afterwardes
coulde
beware
of
them
.
But
nowe
to
auenge
them
,
they
made
a
law
,
that
as
many
Indians
as
might
be
taken
aliue
,
shoulde
bee
flong
into
the
same
pittes
.
Hereuppon
they
cast
in
women
with
child
,
and
women
newe
deliuered
of
childbirth
,
and
olde
folke
as
many
as
they
coulde
come
by
,
vntyll
that
the
ditches
were
filled
vp
.
It
was
a
lamentable
thing
to
beholde
the
women
with
their
children
stabbed
with
these
pickes
.
All
besides
,
they
slue
with
thrust
of
speares
,
and
edge
of
swoorde
.
They
cast
of
them
also
to
fleshe
fraunching
dogges
,
which
tare
them
and
deuoured
them
.
They
brent
a
Lord
at
a
great
fire
of
quicke
flames
:
saying
,
they
woulde
herein
doe
him
honour
.
And
they
persisted
in
these
butcheries
so
vnnaturall
,
about
seuen
yeeres
,
from
the
yeere
24.
vntill
the
yeere
31.
Let
any
esteeme
,
what
may
bee
the
number
of
people
:
whome
they
might
haue
slayne
.
Amongst
an
infinite
of
horrible
actes
which
this
cursed
tyraunt
did
in
this
realme
with
his
bandes
of
souldiers
,
(
for
his
vnder
captaynes
were
no
lesse
mischieuous
and
insensate
then
himselfe
,
and
withall
likewise
those
that
were
vnder
them
again
to
serue
their
turne
,
)
this
one
was
notable
:
That
where
as
in
the
prouince
of
Cuzcatan
,
where
is
at
this
houre
,
or
neere
there
aboutes
the
citie
of
Saint
Sauiour
,
a
countrey
very
fertile
with
all
the
sea
coaste
on
the
Southe
,
contayning
fourtie
or
fiftie
leagues
:
and
likewise
in
the
Citie
of
Cuscatan
the
mother
Citie
of
the
prouince
,
there
had
been
made
him
a
very
great
entertaynement
,
of
more
then
twentie
or
thirtie
thousande
Indians
attending
him
,
all
laden
with
poultrie
and
other
victuals
:
this
Captayne
arriuing
,
and
hauing
receiued
the
presentes
,
hee
commaunded
that
euery
one
of
the
Spaniardes
shoulde
take
of
this
great
number
of
people
,
such
as
shoulde
please
him
,
to
serue
him
all
the
time
that
they
shoulde
make
their
abode
there
,
and
that
they
shoulde
constrayne
them
to
beare
for
them
,
of
their
carriage
all
that
should
bee
needefull
.
Euery
man
tooke
vnto
him
other
an
hundred
,
or
fiftie
,
or
as
many
as
it
seemed
suffised
him
to
bee
well
serued
.
These
poore
lambelike
innocentes
serued
the
Spaniards
with
all
their
power
,
that
there
wanted
nothing
,
vnlesse
they
shoulde
doe
vnto
them
godly
honour
.
Meane
while
this
captayne
demaunded
of
the
Lordes
very
much
golde
:
for
they
were
principally
commen
for
that
purpose
.
The
Indians
answered
that
they
were
ready
to
giue
them
all
the
golde
they
had
:
and
layed
together
a
great
furniture
of
batchets
of
copper
and
gylt
,
where
with
they
seruè
their
owne
turnes
,
the
same
resembling
golde
,
as
in
deede
it
hath
in
it
some
litle
deale
.
The
Captayne
causeth
to
put
to
the
touch
:
and
as
he
sawe
it
was
copper
,
hee
sayde
to
the
Spaniardes
,
nowe
the
diuell
take
such
a
countrey
:
let
vs
bee
gone
hence
,
seeing
here
is
no
golde
heere
:
and
euery
man
put
the
Indians
whiche
hee
hath
retayned
to
serue
him
,
to
the
hotte
irons
,
and
so
to
marke
them
for
slaues
.
That
which
they
did
,
branding
with
the
kinges
marke
all
that
they
might
.
I
sawe
the
sonne
him selfe
of
the
principall
Lorde
of
this
citie
,
to
bee
so
branded
.
The
Indians
which
escaped
,
with
all
other
of
the
Countrey
seeing
all
the
mischiefes
of
the
Spanishe
,
beganne
to
assemble
,
and
put
them selues
in
armes
:
wherevppon
the
Spaniardes
woorke
great
discom
fitures
and
slaughters
,
returning
to
Guatimala
where
they
builded
a
citie
,
the
which
God
of
a
iust
iudgement
hath
renuersed
with
three
ouer
whelmings
falling
all
three
together
:
the
one
was
with
water
,
the
other
with
earth
,
and
the
thirde
with
stones
,
of
the
bignesse
of
tenne
or
twentie
oxen
.
By
suche
like
meanes
all
the
Lordes
and
the
men
that
were
able
to
beare
armes
being
slayne
:
those
which
remayned
,
were
reduced
into
the
diabolicall
seruitude
afore
saide
,
being
made
tributaryslaues
or
villayns
regardant
,
but
giuing
for
their
tribute
sonnes
and
daughters
,
for
they
will
haue
none
other
kind
of
bondimen
.
And
so
the
Spaniards
sending
whole
ships
laden
with
them
to
Peru
to
sell
them
,
with
their
other
slaughters
,
haue
destroyed
&
laide
desert
an
whole
Realme
of
an
hundred
leagues
square
or
about
,
a
countrey
the
most
blesseful
,
and
peopled
the
most
that
might
be
in
the
worlde
.
For
the
tyraunt
him selfe
wrote
hereof
,
that
it
was
more
peopled
then
Mexico
:
and
herein
hee
sayde
the
trueth
.
Hee
hath
done
to
death
,
with
his
consortes
and
confrayryes
,
more
then
foure
or
fiue
Millions
of
soules
in
fifteen
or
sixteen
yeeres
space
,
from
the
yeere
twentie
foure
,
vnto
the
fourtieth
yeere
:
and
yet
at
this
houre
they
slay
and
destroy
those
that
remayne
.
This
tyraunt
had
a
custome
,
when
as
hee
went
to
make
warre
vpon
any
Citie
or
Prouince
:
to
carrie
thither
of
the
Indians
alreadie
vnder
yoked
,
as
many
as
hee
coulde
,
to
make
warre
vpon
the
other
Indians
:
and
as
hee
gaue
vnto
a
ten
or
twentie
thousande
men
which
he
ledde
along
no
sustenaunce
,
he
allowed
them
to
eate
the
Indians
whiche
they
tooke
:
And
so
by
this
meanes
hee
had
in
his
campe
an
ordinarie
shambles
of
mans
fleshe
,
where
,
in
his
presence
they
killed
and
roasted
children
.
They
killed
men
,
onely
to
haue
off
from
them
their
handes
and
their
feete
,
which
partes
they
helde
to
be
the
dayntiest
morcels
.
When
the
nations
of
other
countreys
vnderstoode
of
all
those
vnnaturall
doings
,
they
could
not
tel
what
to
do
for
frightfulnesse
.
He
was
the
death
of
an
infinite
sorte
of
the
Indians
in
making
of
shippes
,
the
which
hee
carried
from
the
North
sea
vnto
the
South
,
which
are
an
hundred
and
thirtie
leagues
.
He
transported
after
this
rate
great
store
of
artillerie
,
which
he
loded
vpon
the
shoulders
of
these
poore
folke
going
naked
:
whereby
I
haue
seene
very
many
fall
downe
in
the
high
way
,
by
reason
of
their
great
burdens
.
Hee
vndid
whole
housholdes
,
by
taking
from
the
men
their
wiues
and
daughters
:
the
which
afterwardes
hee
dispersed
in
gyftes
to
his
marriners
and
souldiers
to
please
them
withall
,
who
led
them
along
with
them
in
their
nauies
.
He
stuffed
all
the
shippes
with
Indians
,
where
they
dyed
for
thryst
and
hungar
.
Certaynely
if
I
shoulde
stande
to
tell
the
particularities
of
these
cruelties
:
I
shoulde
make
a
great
booke
thereof
,
whiche
shoulde
astonishe
the
worlde
.
Hee
made
two
nauies
,
eyther
of
a
great
number
of
shippes
,
with
the
which
hee
consumed
as
with
fire
and
lightning
flashing
from
heauen
all
those
peoples
:
O
howe
many
poore
children
hath
hee
made
fatherlesse
Orphans
.
howe
many
men
and
women
widowers
and
widowes
,
bereeuing
them
also
of
their
children
!
How
many
adulteries
,
whoredoms
and
rapes
,
hath
he
been
the
cause
of
!
How
many
hath
he
of
free
made
villanyes
:
Howe
many
anguishes
and
calamities
by
him
haue
nombers
suffered
:
Howe
many
hath
hee
caused
to
shedde
teares
,
sighes
and
groninges
:
Of
how
many
desolations
hath
he
been
the
occasion
in
this
life
,
and
the
meanes
for
others
to
sall
into
euerlasting
damnation
in
the
life
to
come
,
not
onely
of
the
Indians
which
are
innumerable
,
but
of
the
miserable
Spaniardes
,
with
whose
ayde
he
hath
serued
himselfe
in
villanies
so
excessiue
,
and
sinues
so
enormous
,
and
abominations
so
execrable
:
I
wishe
in
God
that
hee
had
taken
pitie
of
him
:
and
that
hee
had
been
pleased
in
so
euill
an
ende
as
he
sent
him
.
Of
newe
Spaine
,
and
Panuco
,
and
Xalisco
.
AFter
the
exceeding
cruelties
and
slaughters
aforesayd
,
and
the
others
whiche
I
haue
omitted
,
whiche
haue
been
executed
in
the
prouinces
of
newe
Spayne
and
Panuco
:
there
came
to
Panuco
an
other
tyraunt
,
cruell
,
and
vnbrideled
,
in
the
yeere
1525.
Who
in
committing
very
many
cruelties
,
and
in
branding
many
for
slaues
,
after
the
maner
aforesayde
which
were
all
free
,
and
in
sending
very
many
shippes
laden
to
Cuba
,
and
Hispaniola
,
where
they
might
best
make
Marchandise
of
them
,
hee
atchieued
the
desolation
of
this
prouince
.
And
it
hath
come
to
passe
in
his
tyme
,
that
there
hath
been
giuen
for
one
Mare
,
eyght
hundred
Indians
soules
partakers
of
reason
.
And
this
man
from
this
roome
was
promoted
to
bee
president
of
Mexico
,
and
of
all
the
prouince
of
new
Spaine
,
and
there
were
promoted
with
him
other
tyrauntes
,
to
the
offices
of
Auditorshippes
:
in
the
which
dignities
they
committed
so
many
vngracious
turnes
,
so
manie
sinnes
,
so
many
cruelties
,
robberies
,
and
abhominations
,
that
a
man
can
not
beleeue
them
to
be
such
.
And
they
set
forwarde
also
this
countrey
into
so
extreme
a
desolation
,
that
if
God
had
not
kept
them
by
meanes
of
the
resistance
of
the
religious
men
of
Saint
Francis
order
,
and
if
that
there
had
not
been
prouided
with
all
speede
a
court
of
audience
,
and
the
kings
counsayle
in
those
partes
friende
to
all
vertue
,
they
had
laide
wast
all
newe
Spayne
,
as
they
haue
done
the
Ile
of
Hispaniola
.
There
was
a
man
,
amongst
those
of
the
company
of
this
captayne
,
who
to
the
end
to
enclose
a
garden
of
his
,
with
a
wal
:
kept
in
his
workes
eight
thousande
Indians
,
without
paying
them
ought
,
nor
giuing
them
to
eate
,
in
maner
that
they
dyed
,
falling
down
suddenly
,
&
he
neuer
tooke
the
more
thought
for
the
matter
.
After
that
the
chiefe
Captayne
which
I
spake
of
,
had
finished
the
laying
waste
of
Panuco
,
and
that
hee
vnderstoode
the
newes
of
the
comming
of
the
kinges
court
of
Audience
:
hee
aduised
with
him selfe
to
proceede
farther
into
the
innermoste
partes
of
the
realme
,
to
search
where
hee
might
tyrannize
at
his
ease
,
and
drewe
by
force
out
of
the
prouince
of
Mexico
15.
or
20.
Millions
of
men
,
to
the
ende
,
that
they
shoulde
carrie
the
loades
and
carriages
of
the
Spaniardes
whiche
went
with
him
,
of
whom
there
neuer
returned
agayne
two
hundred
,
the
others
being
dead
on
the
high
wayes
.
Hee
came
at
the
prouince
of
Mechuacam
,
which
is
distant
from
Mexico
fourtie
leagues
,
a
region
as
blissefull
and
full
of
inhabitauntes
,
as
is
that
of
Mexico
.
The
king
and
Lorde
of
the
countrey
went
to
receiue
him
with
an
infinite
companie
of
people
,
which
did
vnto
them
a
thousande
seruices
and
curtisies
.
Hee
apprehended
him
by
and
by
,
for
that
hee
had
the
brute
to
be
very
rich
of
gold
and
siluer
:
and
to
the
ende
,
that
hee
shoulde
giue
him
great
treasures
,
hee
beganne
to
giue
him
the
torments
,
and
put
him
in
a
payre
of
stockes
by
the
feete
,
his
body
stretched
out
,
and
his
handes
bounde
to
a
stake
,
hee
maketh
a
flashing
fire
against
his
feete
,
and
there
a
boy
with
a
basting
sprinkle
loked
in
oyle
in
his
hande
stoode
and
basted
them
a
litle
and
a
litle
,
to
the
ende
to
well
roaste
the
skynne
.
There
was
in
one
side
of
him
a
cruell
man
,
the
whiche
with
a
crossebowe
bente
,
aymed
ryght
at
his
heart
,
on
the
other
side
an
other
which
helde
a
dogge
snarling
,
and
leaping
vp
as
to
renne
vppon
him
,
which
in
lesse
then
the
tyme
of
a
Credo
,
had
beene
able
to
haue
torne
him
in
pieces
:
and
thus
they
tormented
him
,
to
the
ende
hee
shoulde
discouer
the
treasures
which
they
desired
,
vntyll
suche
tyme
as
a
religious
man
of
Saint
Frauncis
order
tooke
him
away
from
them
,
notwithstanding
that
hee
dyed
of
the
same
tormentes
.
They
tormented
and
slue
of
this
fashion
very
many
of
the
Lordes
and
Cacikes
in
these
Prouinces
:
to
the
ende
that
they
shoulde
giue
them
gold
and
siluer
.
At
the
same
time
a
certayne
tyrant
going
in
visitation
to
visite
the
powches
,
and
to
robbe
the
godes
of
the
Indians
,
more
then
for
any
care
hee
had
of
theyr
soules
,
founde
,
that
certayne
Indians
had
hid
their
Idolles
,
as
those
which
had
neuer
been
better
instructed
by
the
cursed
Spaniards
of
any
better
god
,
he
apprehended
and
detayned
prisoners
the
Lordes
,
vntyll
suche
time
as
that
they
woulde
giue
them
their
Idolles
:
Supposing
all
this
while
they
had
beene
of
golde
or
of
siluer
:
Howebeit
they
were
not
so
,
wherefore
hee
chastised
them
cruelly
and
vniustly
.
But
to
the
ende
hee
woulde
not
remayne
frustrate
of
his
intent
,
which
was
to
spoyle
,
hee
constrayned
the
Cacikes
to
redeeme
their
sayde
Idolles
,
and
they
redeemed
them
for
such
gold
&
siluer
as
they
coulde
find
,
to
the
ende
,
to
worship
them
for
Gods
,
as
they
had
bin
wont
to
do
aforetime
.
These
be
the
examples
&
deedes
which
these
cursed
Spaniardes
do
:
and
this
is
the
honour
which
they
purchase
to
God
,
amongst
the
Indians
.
This
great
tyraunt
and
Captayne
passed
farther
from
Mechuacham
to
the
Prouince
of
Lalisco
,
the
which
was
all
whole
most
full
of
people
,
and
most
happie
.
For
it
is
one
of
the
moste
fertillest
and
most
admirable
countrey
of
the
Indies
,
whiche
had
borrowes
coutaining
in
a
maner
seuen
leagues
.
As
he
entred
this
countrey
the
L.
with
the
inhabitants
,
according
as
al
the
Indians
are
accustomed
to
do
,
went
to
receiue
him
with
presents
&
ioyfulnes
.
Hee
began
to
commit
his
cruelties
&
mischieuousnes
,
which
he
had
learned
&
all
the
rest
had
bin
accustomed
to
practise
,
which
is
to
heap
vp
gold
which
is
their
god
.
He
burned
townes
,
he
tooke
the
Cacikes
prisonners
.
and
gaue
them
torments
.
Hee
made
slaues
all
that
hee
tooke
.
Whereof
there
died
an
infinite
number
tyed
in
chaynes
.
The
women
newe
deliuered
of
childe
byrth
,
going
laden
with
the
s●uffe
of
euill
Christian●
,
and
being
not
abie
to
beare
their
owne
children
because
of
trauell
and
hunger
,
were
fayne
to
cast
them
from
them
in
the
wayes
,
whereof
there
dyed
an
infinite
.
An
euill
Christian
taking
by
force
a
young
Damsell
to
abuse
her
,
the
mother
withstoode
him
:
and
as
shee
woulde
haue
taken
her
away
,
the
Spaniarde
drawing
his
dagger
or
rapier
,
cutte
off
her
hande
,
and
slue
the
young
gyrle
with
flashes
of
his
weapon
:
because
shee
woulde
not
consent
to
his
appetite
.
Amongst
manye
other
thinges
,
hee
caused
vniustly
to
bee
marked
for
slaues
,
foure
thousande
,
fiue
hundred
soules
as
free
as
they
,
men
,
women
,
and
sucking
babes
,
from
of
a
yere
and
a
halfe
olde
,
vnto
three
or
foure
yeeres
olde
:
which
notwithstanding
had
gone
before
them
in
peace
to
receiue
them
,
with
an
infinite
number
of
other
thinges
that
haue
not
beene
set
downe
in
writing
.
Hauing
atchieued
the
diuelishe
warres
innumerable
,
and
hauing
in
the
same
committed
very
many
slaughters
,
hee
reduced
all
that
countrey
into
the
ordinary
seruitude
,
pestilential
and
tyrannicall
,
into
the
which
all
the
tyrant
Spaniardes
whiche
are
in
the
Indies
,
are
accustomed
,
or
pretende
to
cast
those
people
▪
In
the
which
countrey
,
hee
consented
also
,
and
permitted
his
Stewardes
and
all
others
to
execute
tormentes
neuer
hearde
of
before
,
to
the
ende
,
to
drawe
from
the
Indians
golde
and
tribute
.
His
Stewardes
slewe
very
many
of
the
Indians
,
hanging
them
and
burning
them
aliue
,
and
casting
some
vnto
the
dogges
,
cutting
off
their
feete
,
handes
,
head
,
and
tongue
,
they
being
in
peace
,
onely
to
bring
them
into
a
feare
,
to
the
ende
they
shoulde
serue
him
,
and
giue
him
golde
and
tributes
:
all
this
knowing
,
and
seeing
this
gentle
tyrant
,
euen
to
come
to
the
whippes
,
bast
onads
,
blowes
,
with
other
sorts
of
cruelties
wherewith
hee
vexed
and
oppressed
them
dayly
.
It
is
sayde
of
him
,
that
hee
hath
destroyed
and
burned
in
this
realme
of
Xalisco
,
eyght
hundred
borroughes
,
whiche
was
the
cause
that
the
Indians
being
fallen
desperate
,
and
seeing
those
which
remayned
,
howe
they
perished
thus
cruelly
:
they
lift
vp
themselues
,
and
went
into
the
mountaynes
,
slaying
certayne
Spaniardes
:
howe
be
it
by
good
right
.
And
afterwardes
because
of
the
wickednesses
and
outrages
of
other
tyrauntes
now
being
,
which
passed
by
that
way
to
destroy
other
prouinces
(
that
which
they
call
discouering
)
many
of
the
Indians
assembled
,
fortifying
them selues
vpon
certayne
rockes
.
Vpon
the
whiche
rockes
the
Spanishe
haue
made
,
and
yet
at
this
present
,
and
a
freshe
doe
make
so
many
cruelties
,
that
they
almost
made
an
end
of
laying
desolate
all
this
great
countrey
,
slaying
an
infinite
,
number
of
people
.
And
the
wretched
blinderers
forsaken
of
God
,
and
giuen
ouer
into
a
reprodate
sense
,
not
seeing
the
causes
most
iust
which
the
Indians
haue
by
the
lawes
of
nature
,
man
,
and
God
,
to
hewe
them
in
peeces
,
if
they
had
strength
and
munimentes
,
and
so
to
cast
them
out
of
their
countrey
:
and
not
seeing
the
wickednes
of
their
owne
cause
,
ouer
and
besids
so
many
violents
and
tyrannies
which
they
haue
committed
in
that
sort
,
to
mooue
:
warre
a
newe
:
they
thinke
,
speake
,
and
write
of
the
victories
which
they
haue
ouer
the
poore
Indians
,
leauing
them
in
desolation
,
that
it
is
GOD
which
giueth
the
same
vnto
them
,
as
though
their
warres
were
atchieued
rightfully
:
thus
they
reioyce
,
vaune
themselues
,
and
giue
thankes
vnto
God
for
their
tyrannies
,
as
did
those
tyrantes
and
the
eues
of
whom
speaketh
the
Prophete
Zacharie
,
in
the
eleuenth
chapter
:
verse
4.
saying
:
Feede
the
sheepe
of
the
slaughter
,
they
that
possesse
them
slay
them
,
and
are
not
grieued
,
and
they
that
sell
them
,
say
,
blessed
be
the
Lorde
,
for
we
are
become
rich
.
Of
the
realme
of
Yucatan
.
THe
yeere
one
thousande
,
fiue
hundred
,
twentie
and
sixe
,
was
deputed
ouer
the
Realme
of
Yucatan
an
other
caytise
gouernour
,
and
that
through
the
lies
and
false
reports
which
himselfe
had
made
vnto
the
king
:
in
like
maner
as
hath
the
other
tirants
vntill
this
present
,
to
the
end
there
might
bee
committed
vnto
theem
offices
&
charges
,
by
means
wherof
they
might
rob
at
their
pleasures
.
This
realme
of
Yucatan
was
full
of
inhabitants
:
for
that
it
was
a
countrie
in
euery
respect
holsome
,
and
abounding
in
plentie
of
victuals
,
and
of
fruites
more
then
Mexico
:
and
singulerly
exceeded
for
the
aboundance
of
honnie
and
waxe
there
to
bee
founde
,
more
then
in
any
quarter
of
the
Indies
,
which
hath
beene
seene
vnto
this
present
.
It
conteyneth
about
three
hundred
leagues
compasse
.
The
people
of
that
countrie
,
were
the
most
notable
of
all
the
Indies
,
aswell
in
consideration
of
their
policie
and
prudencie
,
as
for
the
vprightnes
of
their
life
,
verily
worthie
the
training
to
the
knowledge
of
God
:
amongest
whome
there
might
haue
beene
builded
great
Cities
,
by
the
Spanishe
,
in
which
they
might
haue
liued
as
in
an
earthly
Paradise
,
if
so
bee
they
had
not
made
themselues
vnworthie
,
because
of
their
exceeding
couetousnesse
,
harde
heartednes
,
and
heynous
offences
:
as
also
vnworthie
they
were
of
other
moe
blessings
a
great
many
,
which
God
had
set
open
in
these
Indies
.
This
tyrant
bean
with
three
hundred
men
to
make
warre
vpon
these
poore
innocent
people
,
which
were
in
their
houses
without
hurting
any
body
:
where
he
slue
and
ransacked
infinite
numbers
.
And
for
because
the
Countrie
yeeldeth
no
golde
,
for
if
it
had
yeelded
any
,
hee
woulde
haue
consumed
those
same
Indians
,
in
making
them
to
toyle
in
the
mynes
:
to
the
ende
hee
might
make
golde
of
the
bodies
and
soules
of
those
for
whome
Iesus
Christe
suffered
death
,
hee
generally
made
slaues
of
all
those
whome
hee
slue
not
,
and
returned
the
ships
that
were
come
thither
,
vpon
the
blowing
abrode
and
noyse
of
the
selling
of
slaues
,
ful
of
people
bartered
for
wine
,
oyle
,
vinegar
,
powdred
Bacons
fleshe
,
garments
,
horses
,
and
that
,
that
euery
man
had
neede
of
,
according
to
the
Captaines
estimate
and
iudgement
.
Hee
woulde
let
choose
amongest
an
hundred
or
fiftie
young
Damosels
:
bartering
some
one
of
the
fayrest
,
&
of
the
best
complexion
,
for
a
caske
of
wine
,
oyle
,
vinegar
,
or
for
a
yorke
powdred
.
And
in
like
maner
hee
woulde
let
choose
out
a
young
handsome
stripling
amongst
two
or
three
hundreth
for
the
aforesaide
merchandize
.
And
it
hath
beene
seene
,
that
a
youth
seeming
to
be
the
sonne
of
some
prince
,
hath
been
bartered
for
a
Cheese
,
and
an
hundreth
persons
for
an
horse
.
Hee
continued
in
these
voinges
from
the
yeere
twentie
sixe
,
vntill
the
yeere
thirtie
three
,
which
are
seuen
yeeres
,
desolating
and
dispeopling
those
Countries
,
and
killing
the
people
there
without
pitie
or
mercie
,
vntill
the
time
that
the
newes
came
of
the
riches
of
Peru
,
and
that
thereupon
the
Spaniardes
hyed
them
thither
,
by
occasion
whereof
this
Diuelish
tyrannie
ceased
for
a
season
.
A
few
dayes
after
,
his
men
returned
,
to
doe
and
commit
other
haynous
enormities
,
as
robberies
,
&
wrongful
imprisonments
,
with
offences
great
against
God
:
neither
doe
they
cease
as
yet
at
this
day
to
doe
them
,
but
haue
laide
desart
and
dispeopled
all
those
three
hundred
leagues
,
the
which
were
as
well
replenished
and
peopled
,
as
hath
been
saide
.
There
is
no
man
that
can
beleeue
,
or
rehearse
the
cases
particuler
of
the
cruelties
,
which
were
of
them
committed
.
I
wyll
onely
rehearse
two
or
three
,
comming
to
my
remembraunce
at
this
instant
.
As
these
cursed
Spaniards
,
went
with
their
mad
dogges
a
foraging
by
the
tracke
,
and
hunting
out
the
Indian
men
and
women
:
An
Indian
woman
beeing
sicke
,
and
seeing
shee
coulde
not
escape
their
dogges
,
that
they
shoulde
not
rent
her
as
they
did
others
:
shee
tooke
a
corde
and
hanged
herselfe
at
a
beame
,
hauing
fastened
at
her
foote
a
childe
shee
had
of
a
yeere
olde
,
and
shee
had
no
sooner
done
:
beholde
these
Curres
,
whiche
come
and
dispatche
this
infaute
,
howe
be
it
that
before
it
dyed
,
a
Religious
man
a
Fryar
baptized
it
.
When
the
Spanishe
parted
out
of
this
Realme
,
one
amongest
others
saide
,
to
a
sonne
of
a
Lorde
of
some
Citie
of
Prouince
,
that
hee
shoulde
goe
with
him
:
the
boy
aunswered
,
and
sayde
,
hee
woulde
not
forsake
his
Countrie
.
The
Spaniarde
replyed
:
Goe
with
mee
,
or
els
I
will
cutte
off
thine
eares
.
The
young
Indian
persisted
in
his
first
saying
,
that
hee
woulde
not
forsake
his
Countrie
.
The
Spaniarde
drawing
out
his
dagger
,
cut
off
first
one
,
&
then
his
other
eare
.
The
young
man
abyding
by
it
still
that
hee
woulde
not
leaue
his
countrey
:
hee
mangled
off
also
his
nose
,
with
the
vppermost
of
his
lippes
:
making
no
more
scrupulositie
of
the
matter
,
then
if
hee
had
giuen
him
but
a
phillip
.
This
damnable
wretch
magnified
him selfe
,
and
vaunted
him
of
his
doynges
villauously
vnto
a
reuerende
religious
person
,
saying
:
that
hee
tooke
as
much
paynes
as
hee
coulde
,
to
begette
the
Indian
women
in
great
numbers
with
childe
,
to
the
ende
,
hee
might
receiue
the
more
money
for
them
in
selling
them
great
with
childe
for
slaues
.
In
this
realme
,
or
in
one
of
the
prouinces
of
newe
Spaine
,
a
certayne
Spaniard
went
one
day
with
his
dogs
on
hunting
of
veuison
,
or
els
conies
,
and
not
finding
game
,
hee
minded
his
dogs
that
they
should
be
hungrie
,
and
tooke
a
little
sweet
Babie
which
hee
bereaued
the
mother
of
,
and
cutting
off
from
him
the
armes
,
and
the
legges
,
chopped
them
in
small
gobbettes
,
giuing
to
euery
dog
his
liuery
or
part
there
of
,
by
&
by
after
these
morsels
thus
dispatched
,
hee
cast
also
the
rest
of
the
body
or
the
carkase
to
all
the
kenell
together
.
By
this
ye
may
see
how
great
the
dullheartednes
of
the
Spaniardes
is
in
that
countrey
,
and
howe
God
hath
deliuered
them
vp
into
a
reprobate
sense
;
and
what
accoumpt
they
make
of
those
same
nations
which
are
created
after
the
image
of
God
,
and
redeemed
with
the
blood
of
his
Christ
.
We
shal
see
here
after
more
notable
matter
.
Leauing
nowe
the
cruelties
infinite
,
and
neuer
hearde
of
the
like
,
which
in
this
realme
were
done
by
those
which
call
them selues
Christians
,
and
such
as
no
iudgement
of
man
can
sufficiently
imagine
them
:
I
will
conclude
with
this
same
:
That
is
,
that
being
nowe
departed
the
realme
all
the
diuelish
tyrantes
,
blynded
with
the
couerousnes
of
the
riches
of
Peru
,
that
reuerend
father
,
fryer
Iames
,
with
foure
other
religious
of
S.
Frauncis
,
was
moued
in
spirite
to
goe
into
this
realme
to
pacifie
them
,
and
for
to
preach
to
them
,
and
to
win
vnto
Iesus
Christ
those
which
might
bee
remayning
of
the
butcheries
and
tyranuous
murders
,
which
the
Spanish
had
bin
perpetrating
seuen
continuall
yeres
.
And
I
beleeue
that
these
same
were
those
religious
persons
,
the
which
in
the
yeere
34.
certaine
Indians
of
the
Prouince
of
Mexico
,
sending
before
them
messengers
in
their
behalf
,
requested
them
that
they
woulde
come
into
their
countrie
,
to
giue
them
knowledge
of
that
one
onely
God
,
who
is
God
,
and
very
Lorde
of
all
the
worlde
:
and
for
whose
occasion
the
Indians
helde
a
councel
sundrie
times
,
parlementing
and
informing
themselues
in
their
folke
motes
:
to
wit
,
what
kinde
of
men
those
might
be
,
which
were
called
by
the
speciall
name
of
fathers
and
brethren
,
and
what
it
was
that
they
pretended
,
and
wherein
they
differed
from
the
Spaniardes
,
of
whom
they
had
receiued
so
many
outrages
and
iniuries
:
according
in
the
ende
to
admit
them
with
condition
,
that
they
should
enter
themselues
alone
,
and
not
the
Spaniardes
with
them
,
that
which
the
religious
promised
them
.
For
it
was
permitted
them
,
yea
,
commaunded
them
so
to
doe
,
by
the
Viceroy
of
new
Spaine
,
and
that
there
shoulde
no
kinde
of
displeasure
bee
done
vnto
them
by
the
Spaniardes
.
The
Religious
men
preached
vnto
them
the
Gospell
of
Christe
,
as
they
are
accustomed
to
doe
,
and
as
had
been
the
holy
intention
of
the
kinges
of
Castile
,
that
shoulde
haue
been
done
.
Howbeit
,
that
the
Spaniardes
in
all
the
seuen
yeres
space
past
,
had
neuer
giuen
them
any
such
notice
of
the
truth
of
the
Gospel
,
or
so
much
as
that
there
was
any
other
king
sauing
himselfe
,
that
so
tyrannised
ouer
them
,
and
destroyed
them
.
By
these
meanes
of
the
religious
,
after
the
ende
of
fortie
dayes
that
they
had
preached
vnto
them
,
the
Lordes
of
the
countrie
brought
vnto
them
,
and
put
into
their
handes
their
idols
,
to
the
end
that
they
shoult
burne
them
.
After
also
,
they
brought
vnto
them
their
young
children
,
that
they
should
catechise
them
,
whom
they
loue
as
the
apple
of
their
eye
.
They
made
for
them
also
Churches
,
and
Temples
,
and
houses
.
Moreouer
,
some
other
prouinces
sent
,
and
inuited
them
,
to
the
ende
that
they
might
come
to
them
also
,
to
preache
,
and
giue
them
the
vnderstanding
of
God
,
and
of
him
whom
they
saide
to
be
the
great
king
of
Castile
.
And
beeing
perswaded
and
induced
by
the
religious
,
they
did
a
thing
which
neuer
yet
before
hath
been
done
in
the
Indies
.
(
For
whatsoeuer
the
tyrants
,
some
of
those
which
haue
spoyled
those
Realmes
,
&
great
Countries
,
haue
contriued
to
blemishe
and
defame
the
poore
Indians
withall
,
they
are
mockeries
and
leasings
:
)
twelue
or
fifteene
Lordes
,
which
had
very
many
subiecets
and
great
dominion
,
assembling
euery
one
for
his
owne
part
his
people
,
and
taking
their
aduise
and
consent
,
of
their
owne
voluntarie
motion
,
yeelded
themselues
to
the
subiection
,
and
to
bee
vnder
the
domination
of
the
kinges
of
Castile
:
admitting
the
Emperour
as
king
of
Spain
,
for
their
liege
Soueraigne
.
Wherof
also
they
made
certaine
instrumentes
,
by
them
consigned
,
which
I
keepe
in
my
charge
,
together
with
the
testimonies
thereunto
of
the
said
religious
.
The
Indians
being
thus
onwarde
in
the
way
of
the
faith
,
with
the
great
ioy
,
and
good
hope
of
the
Religious
brethren
,
that
they
shoulde
bee
able
to
winne
vnto
Iesus
Christe
all
the
people
of
the
Realme
that
were
the
residue
,
beeing
but
a
smal
number
of
the
slaughters
,
and
wicked
warres
passed
:
There
entred
at
a
certaine
coaste
,
eighteene
Spaniarde
tyrantes
on
horse
backe
,
and
twelue
on
foote
,
driuing
with
them
great
loades
of
Idols
,
which
they
had
taken
in
the
other
Prouinces
of
the
Indians
.
The
Captaine
of
those
thirtie
Spaniards
,
called
vnto
him
a
Lorde
of
the
countrie
there
aboutes
as
they
were
entred
,
and
commaundeth
him
to
take
those
idols
,
and
to
disperse
them
throughout
al
his
countrie
,
selling
euery
idol
for
an
Indian
man
,
or
an
Indian
woman
,
to
make
slaues
of
them
,
with
threatening
them
,
that
if
hee
did
not
doe
it
,
hee
woulde
bidde
them
battaile
.
That
saide
Lorde
beeing
forced
by
feare
,
distributed
those
Idols
throughout
all
the
countrie
,
and
commaunded
all
his
subiectes
,
that
they
should
take
them
to
adore
them
,
and
that
they
shoulde
returne
in
exchaunge
of
that
ware
Indies
and
Indisses
to
make
slaues
of
.
The
Indians
beeing
affeard
,
those
which
had
two
children
,
gaue
him
one
,
and
he
that
had
three
gaue
him
two
.
This
was
the
ende
of
this
sacrilegious
trafficke
:
and
thus
was
this
Lord
or
Cacick
,
faine
to
content
these
Spaniards
:
I
say
not
Christians
.
One
of
these
abhominable
chafferers
,
named
Iohn
Garcia
,
beeing
sicke
,
and
neere
his
death
,
had
vnder
his
bed
two
packs
of
Idols
,
and
commaunded
his
Indish
maide
that
serued
him
,
to
looke
to
it
that
she
made
not
away
his
idols
,
that
there
were
for
Murlimeus
,
for
they
were
good
stuffe
:
and
that
making
bent
of
them
,
she
should
not
take
lesse
then
a
slaue
for
a
peece
one
of
them
with
another
:
and
in
fine
,
with
this
his
Testament
and
last
will
thus
deuised
,
the
caytife
dyed
,
busied
with
this
deep
goodly
care
,
and
who
doubteth
but
that
he
is
lodged
in
the
bottome
of
hell
▪
Let
it
nowe
bee
considered
,
and
well
weyed
,
what
kinde
of
aduancement
of
religion
it
is
,
and
what
are
the
good
examples
of
Christianitie
of
the
behalfe
of
the
Spanishe
,
that
sayle
to
the
Indies
?
What
honour
they
doe
vnto
God
,
how
they
paine
themselues
to
haue
him
knowen
and
adored
of
those
nations
:
what
carke
and
care
the
haue
of
the
doing
of
it
,
that
by
their
meanes
the
rather
the
sacred
faith
shoulde
bee
dispersed
,
encreased
,
and
enlarged
in
the
free
passage
thereof
,
amongest
those
silly
creatures
?
And
let
it
with
all
bee
discerned
,
if
the
sinne
of
these
men
be
any
whit
lesse
then
the
same
of
Ieroboam
,
Which
made
Israel
to
sinne
,
by
making
two
golden
Calues
for
the
people
,
to
fall
downe
before
,
and
worshippe
:
or
otherwise
if
it
bee
not
like
to
the
treason
of
Iudas
,
and
which
hath
caused
more
offence
.
These
bee
the
iestes
of
the
Spaniardes
,
whiche
goe
to
the
Indies
,
whiche
of
a
truth
very
many
times
,
yea
,
an
infinit
sort
of
times
,
for
couetyse
,
and
to
scratche
golde
,
haue
solde
and
do
sell
:
haue
reneaged
,
and
do
reneage
as
yet
hitherto
,
and
at
this
present
day
:
Christ
Iesus
.
The
Indians
perceiuing
that
,
that
,
which
the
religious
had
promised
them
,
was
as
good
as
nothing
:
namely
,
that
the
Spaniardes
shoulde
not
enter
those
Prouinces
:
and
seeing
the
Spaniards
whiche
had
laded
thither
idols
from
other
places
,
there
to
make
vent
of
them
,
they
hauing
put
al
their
idols
afore
into
the
handes
of
the
Fryars
,
to
the
ende
they
shoulde
bee
burned
,
and
to
the
ende
the
true
God
shoulde
bee
by
them
adored
,
all
the
Countrie
was
in
a
mutinie
,
and
a
rage
against
the
religious
Fryars
,
and
the
Indians
comming
vnto
them
,
say
:
Why
haue
you
lyed
vnto
vs
,
in
promising
vs
by
deceites
that
there
should
not
enter
any
Spaniardes
into
these
Countries
?
And
why
haue
you
burnt
our
gods
,
seeing
the
Spaniards
doe
bring
vs
other
gods
from
other
nations
?
Were
not
our
gods
as
good
,
as
the
gods
of
other
prouinces
?
The
fryars
pacified
them
in
the
best
maner
that
they
could
,
not
knowing
what
to
answere
them
:
and
went
to
seeke
out
those
thirtie
Spaniards
,
to
whom
they
declared
the
euill
which
they
had
done
,
praying
them
to
get
them
thence
.
That
which
the
Spaniards
would
not
doe
,
but
saide
to
the
Indians
,
that
those
religious
men
had
caused
them
to
come
thither
themselues
of
their
owne
accorde
,
whiche
was
rightly
an
extreeme
maliciousnesse
.
In
the
end
the
Indians
deliberated
to
kill
the
religious
men
:
By
occasion
whereof
,
the
Fryars
fled
away
in
a
night
,
hauing
aduertisement
of
the
case
by
some
of
the
Indians
.
But
after
that
they
were
gone
,
the
Indians
better
infourmed
of
the
innocencie
of
the
religious
men
,
and
of
the
vngraciousnesse
of
the
Spaniardes
,
the
sent
messengers
after
them
,
neere
hand
fiftie
leagues
of
,
beseeching
them
to
come
againe
,
and
crauing
pardon
of
them
.
The
religious
,
as
the
seruants
of
God
,
and
zealous
for
the
winning
of
their
soules
,
beleeuing
them
,
returned
to
them
,
and
were
receiued
as
it
had
been
Angels
.
And
the
Indians
doyng
them
a
thousand
seruices
,
abode
with
them
foure
or
fiue
monethes
.
And
for
because
the
Spaniards
would
neuer
departe
that
Countrie
,
and
that
namely
the
Viceroy
with
all
that
he
could
doe
,
could
not
draw
them
thence
,
newe
Spaine
beeing
farre
of
,
howbeit
,
hee
had
caused
them
to
bee
proclaimed
traitours
:
And
for
as
muche
as
they
neuer
ceased
to
commit
their
outrages
,
and
griefes
accustomed
amongst
the
Indians
,
the
religious
perceiuing
that
sooner
or
later
they
should
smell
of
the
smoke
,
and
peraduenture
the
euill
light
vpon
their
heades
:
and
specially
that
they
coulde
not
preach
vnto
the
Indians
with
quiet
,
and
assurance
of
the
Indians
,
&
of
themselues
,
by
reason
of
the
continuall
assaultes
and
lewde
deportments
of
the
Spanish
,
they
deliberated
to
leaue
the
realme
:
which
in
this
maner
was
destitute
of
the
light
and
the
doctrine
:
and
those
soules
,
abode
vnder
the
darknesse
of
ignorance
,
and
in
the
miserie
they
were
in
,
the
remedie
,
and
the
watering
of
the
knowledge
of
God
being
bereaued
them
,
alreadie
euen
at
their
best
,
and
when
as
they
began
to
receiue
it
with
exceeding
willingnes
:
altogether
like
as
if
one
should
withdraw
the
watring
from
tender
plants
,
and
new
set
into
a
drie
ground
,
at
a
hot
time
of
the
yeere
:
and
this
by
the
cursed
vngraciousnesse
of
the
Spanish
.
Of
the
Prouince
of
Saint
Martha
.
THe
prouince
of
Saint
Martha
,
was
a
countrie
where
the
Spaniardes
gathered
golde
in
all
plentie
:
the
land
beeing
with
the
regions
adiacent
very
rich
,
and
the
people
industrious
to
drawe
out
the
golde
.
Wherefore
also
from
the
yeere
one
thousand
,
fiue
hundred
,
fortie
two
,
infinite
tyrants
haue
made
thither
continually
with
their
ships
,
ouerrunning
,
and
raunging
along
the
countrie
,
killing
and
spoyling
those
the
inhabitants
,
and
ramping
from
them
that
gold
that
they
had
,
with
speedie
return
euer
to
their
ships
,
which
went
and
came
oftentimes
.
And
so
wrought
they
in
those
prouinces
great
wasts
,
and
slaughters
,
and
cruelties
horrible
,
&
that
most
commonly
on
the
Sea
coast
,
and
certaine
leagues
within
the
countrie
,
vntill
the
yeere
one
thousand
,
fiue
hundred
,
and
three
.
At
what
time
there
wente
Spanish
tyrants
to
inhabite
there
.
And
for
as
much
as
the
countrie
was
exceeding
riche
as
hath
been
said
,
there
euer
succeeded
Captaines
one
in
anothers
roome
,
euerie
one
more
cruell
then
other
:
in
such
sort
that
it
seemed
that
euerie
one
inforced
himselfe
,
for
the
masterie
in
doing
of
euilles
and
cruelties
more
haynous
then
had
been
done
by
his
predecessour
.
Wherefore
herein
is
the
rule
verified
that
we
haue
giuen
before
.
The
yeere
one
thousande
,
fiue
hundred
,
twentie
and
nine
,
there
went
a
great
tyrant
,
very
resolute
,
with
great
troupes
:
but
without
any
feare
of
God
,
or
compassion
of
the
nature
of
man
,
who
wrought
suche
wastes
,
and
slaughters
so
greate
,
that
hee
exceeded
all
others
that
had
gone
before
him
,
himselfe
robbing
for
the
space
of
sixe
or
seuen
yeares
that
he
lyued
,
great
treasures
:
saue
after
beeing
deceased
without
confession
,
and
fledde
from
the
place
of
his
residence
:
there
succeeded
him
other
murdering
tyrantes
,
and
theeues
,
which
made
an
ende
of
the
rest
of
the
people
,
whome
the
embrewed
handes
with
blood
,
and
the
caruing
swoordes
of
the
tyruntes
his
forerunners
,
coulde
not
extyrp
.
They
set
themselues
so
forwarde
in
the
countrey
,
in
inuading
and
laying
desolate
very
manye
prouinces
,
with
killing
,
and
taking
prisoners
those
people
,
after
the
fashion
before
practised
in
other
Prouinces
,
causing
the
Lordes
together
with
their
Subiectes
to
suffer
grieuous
torments
,
both
to
make
them
discouer
the
golde
,
and
the
places
where
golde
might
bee
had
:
surmounting
as
is
sayde
euery
way
in
number
of
mischieuous
doinges
,
and
in
the
maner
of
dooing
,
all
that
had
passed
before
:
that
from
the
yeere
one
thousande
,
fiue
hundred
,
twentie
and
niene
,
vnto
this
day
,
they
haue
reduced
into
a
wildernesse
in
those
same
quarters
more
then
foure
hundred
leagues
of
lande
,
which
was
no
lesse
peopled
then
the
other
countreys
which
wee
haue
spoken
of
.
Verily
if
I
had
to
make
a
bedrolle
of
the
vngraciousnesses
,
of
the
slaughters
,
of
the
desolations
,
of
the
iniquities
,
of
the
violencies
,
of
the
massacres
,
and
other
greate
insolencies
whiche
the
Spaniardes
haue
done
,
and
committed
in
those
Prouinces
of
Saint
Martha
agaynst
God
,
the
king
,
and
agaynst
those
innocent
nations
:
I
shoulde
write
an
historie
very
ample
.
But
that
maye
bee
done
if
God
spare
mee
lyfe
,
hereafter
in
his
good
tyme
:
onely
I
will
sette
downe
a
fewe
woordes
of
that
which
was
written
in
a
letter
by
a
Byshoppe
of
this
Prouince
to
the
king
our
Soueraigne
:
and
the
letter
beareth
date
the
twentieth
of
May
,
1541.
The
whiche
Byshoppe
amongst
other
woordes
,
speaketh
thus
:
I
say
,
sacred
Maiestie
,
that
the
way
to
redresse
this
countrey
,
is
that
his
Maiestie
deliuer
her
out
of
the
power
of
Stepfathers
,
and
giue
vnto
her
an
husbande
whiche
may
intreate
her
as
is
reason
,
and
according
as
shee
deserueth
:
otherwise
,
I
am
sure
hereafter
as
the
tyrauntes
whiche
nowe
haue
the
gouernment
,
doe
torment
and
tormoyle
her
,
shee
will
soone
take
an
ende
,
&c.
And
a
little
belowe
hee
sayeth
:
Whereby
,
your
Maiestie
shall
knowe
clearely
,
howe
those
whiche
gouerne
in
those
quarters
doe
deserue
to
bee
disamounted
,
and
deposed
from
their
gouernment
,
to
the
ende
,
that
the
common
weales
maye
bee
relieued
.
That
if
that
be
not
done
,
in
mine
aduise
,
they
can
neuer
be
cured
of
their
diseases
.
His
maiestie
shal
vnderstand
moreouer
,
that
in
those
regions
,
there
are
not
any
Christians
but
diuels
,
that
there
are
no
seruantes
of
God
and
the
king
,
but
traitors
to
the
state
,
and
their
king
.
And
in
truth
the
greatest
encombraunce
that
I
finde
in
reducing
the
Indians
,
that
are
in
warre
,
and
to
set
them
at
peace
,
and
to
lead
those
which
are
at
peace
to
the
knowledge
of
our
faith
,
is
vnnaturall
&
cruell
entreaty
,
which
they
that
are
in
peace
do
receiue
of
the
spanish
,
being
so
deeply
altered
,
&
laū●ed
,
that
they
haue
nothing
in
more
hatred
&
horror
,
than
the
name
of
christians
,
the
which
in
al
these
countreys
they
cal
in
their
language
,
yares
,
that
is
to
say
,
diuels
.
For
the
acts
which
they
committed
here
,
are
neither
of
christians
,
nor
of
men
which
haue
the
vse
of
reason
:
but
of
diuels
.
Whereof
it
commeth
to
passe
,
that
the
Indies
which
doe
see
these
behauiors
to
be
generally
so
far
estranged
from
all
humanity
,
&
without
and
mercy
,
aswell
in
the
heads
as
in
the
members
:
they
esteem
,
that
the
christians
do
hold
these
things
for
a
law
,
&
that
their
God
,
&
their
K.
are
the
authors
thereof
.
And
to
endeuor
to
perswad
them
otherwise
,
were
to
endeuor
in
vaine
,
&
to
minister
vnto
them
the
more
ample
matter
,
to
deride
and
scorne
Iesus
Christ
&
his
law
.
The
Indians
that
are
in
warre
,
seeing
the
intreatie
vsed
toward
the
Indians
that
are
in
peace
:
woulde
chuse
rather
to
die
once
for
all
,
then
to
endure
sundrie
deathes
,
beyng
vnder
the
command
of
the
Spanish
.
I
knowe
this
by
experience
,
most
victorous
Cesar
.
&c.
He
sayth
for
a
surcharge
in
a
chapter
a
lttle
lower
,
His
M.
hath
in
these
parts
more
seruants
then
it
supposeth
.
For
here
is
not
one
souldier
of
so
many
as
are
of
them
,
that
dare
not
say
openly
&
publikly
,
that
if
he
roue
,
rob
,
wast
,
stay
,
or
burne
the
subiects
of
his
M.
to
the
ende
that
they
giue
him
some
gold
,
he
serueth
there
in
your
M.
with
this
title
,
that
he
saith
,
therof
redoundeth
to
his
M.
his
part
.
Wherfore
,
most
christian
Cesar
,
it
should
be
good
,
that
youre
M.
gaue
them
to
vnderstand
,
by
chastising
some
seuerely
,
that
it
receiueth
no
seruice
in
ought
,
whereby
God
is
disobeyed
and
dishonoured
.
All
the
abouesayde
are
the
formall
woordes
of
the
saide
Bishoppe
of
Saint
Martha
:
by
the
which
may
bee
seene
clearly
,
what
is
done
at
this
day
amongest
these
poore
innocent
peoples
in
those
countreys
.
He
calleth
the
Indians
in
warre
,
those
which
saued
them selues
by
flying
into
the
mountaines
from
the
slaughters
of
the
mischieuous
Spaniardes
.
And
hee
calleth
the
Indians
in
peace
,
those
which
after
hauing
lost
an
infinite
of
their
people
,
by
the
massacres
,
haue
been
thralled
into
the
tyrannicall
and
horrible
seruitude
aforesayde
,
and
whereof
in
the
ende
they
haue
been
fined
out
,
desolated
,
and
slayne
,
as
appeareth
by
that
which
hath
been
saide
by
the
Bishoppe
,
which
notwithstanding
speaketh
but
litle
,
in
comparison
of
that
which
they
haue
suffered
.
The
Indians
in
that
countrey
haue
accustomed
to
say
,
if
when
they
are
trauayled
and
dryuen
vp
the
mountaynes
loden
,
they
happen
to
fall
downe
,
and
to
fainte
for
feeblenesse
,
and
for
payne
:
for
at
that
tyme
they
lay
on
vpon
them
blowes
with
their
feete
and
with
their
statues
,
and
they
breake
theyr
teethe
with
the
pomelles
of
their
swordes
,
to
make
them
rise
,
and
march
on
without
taking
of
breath
,
with
these
wordes
,
out
vpon
thee
,
what
a
villanie
art
thou
?
they
(
I
say
)
the
Indians
,
for
their
partes
are
wont
to
say
,
I
can
no
more
:
kill
mee
heere
right
.
I
doe
desire
to
die
heere
:
and
this
they
say
with
great
sighes
,
and
beeing
scarce
able
to
speake
,
for
hauing
their
heart
drawen
together
,
declaring
a
great
anguishe
and
dolour
.
But
who
were
able
to
giue
to
vnderstande
the
hundreth
parte
of
the
afflictions
and
calamities
,
that
these
innocent
people
doe
suffer
of
the
cursed
Spaniardes
?
God
make
them
to
take
knowledge
of
it
,
that
are
able
and
bounde
to
redresse
it
.
Of
the
Prouince
of
Carthagene
.
THis
Prouince
of
Carthagene
is
situate
vnder
,
and
a
fiftie
leagues
distant
from
the
same
of
Saint
Martha
,
towardes
the
West
,
confining
with
the
prouince
of
Ceu
,
vnto
the
gulph
of
Araba
:
which
are
a
hundred
leagues
all
along
the
Sea
side
,
and
is
a
great
countrie
within
land
towardes
the
South
.
These
Prouinces
since
the
yeere
1498.
or
99.
vntill
nowe
haue
beene
euill
entreated
,
martyred
,
massacred
,
desolated
like
vnto
that
of
Saint
Martha
:
and
there
hath
beene
in
these
same
done
by
the
Spaniardes
such
cruelties
,
ransackinges
,
and
pillagings
enormous
:
as
the
which
to
make
an
ende
the
rather
of
this
briefe
Summarie
,
as
also
to
make
way
to
the
rehearsall
of
their
euill
doinges
in
other
Prouinces
,
I
will
not
stande
to
touch
in
particuler
.
Of
the
Coaste
of
Perles
,
and
of
Paria
,
and
of
the
Isle
of
the
Trinitie
.
FRom
the
coast
of
Paria
,
vnto
the
goulph
of
Venesuela
,
without
foorth
,
which
are
two
hundred
leagues
:
the
Spanishe
haue
wrought
great
and
straunge
destructions
,
rioting
vppon
that
people
,
and
taking
aliue
as
many
as
they
coulde
,
to
the
ende
they
might
sell
them
for
slaues
:
and
oftentimes
making
them
prisoners
against
the
assurance
and
the
promise
of
friendshippe
made
vnto
them
,
neither
keeping
with
them
their
faith
plighted
vnto
them
,
the
friendly
entertainement
which
they
had
receiof
those
good
people
notwithstanding
:
hauing
beene
entertained
and
entreated
in
their
houses
,
as
parents
and
children
,
vsing
them
to
serue
their
turn
withall
,
and
inioying
all
that
they
had
,
and
that
that
they
were
able
to
doe
for
them
.
It
cannot
bee
well
told
,
nor
particularly
exprest
,
the
sundrie
kindes
and
greeuous
vexations
,
wronges
,
hurtes
,
and
spoyles
,
which
those
people
endured
at
the
Spaniardes
handes
,
from
the
yeere
1510.
vntill
this
present
.
I
will
onely
rehearse
two
or
three
actes
,
by
the
whiche
it
may
bee
iudged
of
the
rest
,
innumerable
and
excessiue
,
and
worthy
all
tormentes
and
fire
.
In
the
Ile
of
the
Trinitie
,
whiche
is
farre
greater
and
more
fertile
then
the
Isle
of
Scicile
,
and
ioyneth
with
the
firme
lande
of
the
coaste
of
Paria
,
and
where
the
people
are
the
dest
disposed
,
and
moste
enclined
to
vertue
in
their
kinde
,
of
all
the
Indians
,
as
they
went
,
there
a
captaine
Rouer
in
the
yeere
,
1510.
accompanied
with
60.
or
70.
other
p●t●●
theeues
well
appointed
:
they
published
among
the
Indians
by
proclamations
,
and
other
publike
sonmōs
,
that
they
should
come
and
dwell
and
liue
with
them
in
that
I
le
.
The
Indians
receiued
them
as
their
owne
bowels
and
babes
:
and
as
well
the
Lordes
as
subiectes
serued
them
with
exceeding
readines
,
bringing
them
to
eate
from
day
to
day
,
as
much
as
might
suffice
to
feede
,
as
manie
moe
people
.
For
this
is
the
liberality
of
all
these
Indians
of
the
new
world
,
to
bestow
on
the
Spaniards
of
al
that
they
haue
in
great
abundance
.
The
Spanish
build
a
great
house
of
timber
,
in
the
which
the
Indians
should
dwell
all
together
:
for
the
Spanishe
would
haue
it
so
,
that
there
should
be
one
only
house
for
all
,
and
no
more
,
to
compasse
that
,
which
they
had
alreadie
premeditate
to
do
,
&
did
it
.
When
they
laid
the
thetch
vpon
the
binding
slaues
or
sparres
,
and
had
alreadie
couered
to
the
height
of
two
mens
length
,
to
the
end
that
those
that
were
within
might
not
see
those
that
were
without
,
vnder
colour
to
hasten
forward
the
woorke
,
that
it
might
be
the
sooner
dispatched
,
they
set
a
great
number
of
people
within
,
the
Spaniards
deuiding
themselues
,
the
one
part
of
them
being
bestowed
without
,
compassing
the
house
round
about
with
their
weapons
,
because
of
those
that
might
get
forth
,
the
other
part
of
them
presse
into
the
house
:
Thus
laying
hands
on
their
swordes
,
they
began
to
threaten
the
Indians
naked
as
they
were
,
to
kill
them
if
they
did
stirre
,
and
then
bound
them
.
And
those
which
fled
they
hewed
them
in
peeces
:
Howbeit
som
of
the
Indies
which
fled
,
both
of
the
hurt
&
not
hurt
,
with
others
that
had
not
come
within
the
house
,
toke
their
bowes
&
arrowes
and
assembled
themselues
in
another
house
,
about
an
hundred
or
two
hundred
persons
:
And
as
they
kept
the
gate
,
the
Spaniards
set
fire
on
the
house
,
&
burned
them
aliue
.
After
with
their
purchase
,
which
might
bee
of
an
hundred
or
fourescore
persons
of
them
which
they
had
bounde
:
they
get
them
to
the
Ile
of
saint
Iohn
,
where
they
solde
the
one
moitie
,
and
thence
to
the
Ile
of
Hispaniola
:
where
they
solde
the
other
moity
.
As
I
reprehended
the
captaine
for
this
notable
treason
,
at
the
same
time
,
and
at
the
same
I
le
of
Saint
Iohn
,
hee
made
an
answere
:
Syr
,
quiet
your
selfe
for
that
matter
.
So
haue
they
commanded
me
to
doe
,
and
giuen
me
instruction
which
sent
mee
:
that
if
I
coulde
not
take
them
by
warre
,
I
shoulde
take
them
vnder
countenance
and
colour
of
peace
.
And
in
truth
the
Captaine
tolde
mee
that
in
all
his
life
,
he
neuer
had
founde
father
nor
mother
,
but
in
this
Isle
of
the
Trinitie
,
in
respect
of
the
friendly
courtesies
the
Indians
had
shewed
him
.
And
this
hee
spake
to
his
owne
greater
confusion
and
aggrauating
for
the
surcharge
of
his
owne
offences
.
They
haue
done
other
things
semblable
vnto
these
infinite
,
in
this
firme
lande
:
apprehending
the
poore
people
contrary
to
the
safe
conduct
promised
.
Let
it
now
be
weighed
,
what
maner
of
doings
these
are
,
and
whether
the
Indians
in
this
wise
taken
,
might
iustly
be
made
slaues
.
At
another
time
,
the
religious
Fryars
of
saint
Dominicks
order
,
being
determined
to
goe
preache
,
and
to
conuert
those
nations
,
who
had
not
the
light
of
the
doctrine
for
to
saue
their
souls
,
as
is
the
case
at
this
day
of
the
Indians
:
they
sent
a
religious
man
licentiate
in
diuinitie
,
a
man
vertuous
&
holy
,
with
a
laie
man
of
his
order
his
companion
,
to
the
ende
hee
shoulde
take
a
viewe
of
the
Countrie
,
to
trauerse
acquaintance
with
that
people
,
and
search
out
a
place
commodious
to
builde
monasteries
.
The
religious
being
arriued
:
they
receiued
them
as
Angelles
commen
from
heauen
:
and
hearde
with
great
affection
,
attention
,
and
willingnesse
such
wordes
as
the
religious
at
that
time
were
able
to
giue
them
to
vnderstand
,
more
by
signes
than
otherwise
,
for
they
knew
not
the
tongue
.
It
came
to
passe
that
there
arriued
there
another
ship
,
after
that
the
ship
in
whiche
the
religious
men
came
was
departed
thence
,
and
the
Spanish
in
this
vessell
,
keeping
their
diuelish
custome
,
by
suttelty
without
the
knowledge
of
the
religious
,
carried
away
the
Lord
of
the
countrie
called
Alfonso
:
were
it
that
Friars
had
giuen
him
this
name
,
or
els
others
.
For
the
Indians
loue
&
desire
to
beare
the
name
of
the
Christians
,
desiring
incontinent
that
it
may
be
giuen
them
euen
before
they
know
any
thing
,
that
they
may
be
baptized
.
They
induced
fraudilently
this
Don
Alfonso
to
come
aboord
their
ship
with
the
lady
his
wife
,
&
other
persons
,
making
semblance
to
go
about
to
feast
them
.
In
the
end
there
entred
seuenteene
persons
,
together
with
the
Lord
and
his
Lady
:
the
Lord
trusting
that
the
religious
persons
being
entred
into
his
Countrie
,
woulde
keepe
the
Spaniardes
from
doyng
any
wrong
:
for
otherwise
hee
woulde
neuer
haue
put
himselfe
in
the
handes
of
the
Spanish
.
The
Indians
therfore
thus
being
in
the
ship
,
the
traiterous
Spaniards
hoysed
sayles
,
and
away
they
went
to
Hispaniola
with
them
,
there
selling
them
for
slaues
.
All
the
Countrie
seeing
that
their
Lorde
&
soueraigne
Lady
were
carried
away
,
they
run
to
the
religious
men
,
purposing
to
kill
them
.
The
poore
men
seeing
so
great
a
villany
,
were
of
themselues
at
apoint
to
dye
for
sorrowe
:
and
it
is
well
to
be
beleeued
of
them
,
that
they
woulde
rather
haue
gyuen
their
lyues
in
the
quarrell
,
then
to
haue
accorded
that
anye
such
iniury
should
haue
been
committed
:
specially
considering
that
was
enough
to
hinder
the
course
begun
,
so
as
those
poore
Heathens
should
neuer
,
neither
heare
,
nor
hearing
beleeue
the
worde
of
God
.
Howbeit
,
they
appeased
the
Indians
in
the
best
maner
they
could
,
saying
that
they
woulde
write
to
them
at
Hispaniola
by
the
first
ship
that
went
,
&
would
take
suche
care
and
order
in
the
matter
,
that
their
soueraigne
should
be
restored
them
againe
with
those
that
were
in
his
companie
.
God
sent
immediately
vpon
a
ship
thither
,
no
doubt
for
the
greater
confirmation
of
the
damnation
of
those
which
there
gouerned
,
and
they
wrote
to
the
Spanishe
religious
men
that
were
in
the
Isle
of
Hispaniola
.
They
cry
out
,
and
call
heauen
and
earth
to
witnesse
against
them
,
both
first
,
&
sundrie
times
after
:
But
the
Iudges
of
the
audience
,
would
neuer
giue
them
audience
to
do
them
iustice
,
for
because
themselues
had
part
in
the
bootie
of
the
Indians
,
which
the
tyrants
had
so
against
all
right
&
reason
taken
,
The
two
religious
men
,
which
had
promised
the
Indians
of
the
countrie
,
that
their
Lord
Don
Alfonso
,
with
others
shold
come
home
▪
with
the
rest
within
foure
moneths
,
seeing
that
they
came
not
neither
in
4.
nor
8.
made
themselues
redy
to
the
death
,
&
to
giue
their
life
,
whiche
they
had
gaged
before
they
came
out
of
Spaine
,
if
neede
shoulde
bee
,
and
in
that
sort
the
Indians
tooke
vengeance
on
them
in
killing
them
iustly
,
notwithstanding
that
they
were
innocent
:
for
because
that
they
thought
that
the
religious
men
had
beene
the
occasion
of
this
treason
,
and
for
because
they
sawe
that
,
that
whiche
they
had
certified
and
promised
them
,
tooke
not
effect
:
to
witte
,
that
within
foure
monethes
they
shoulde
haue
home
their
Lorde
:
and
for
that
,
at
that
time
they
knewe
not
,
and
nowe
as
yet
they
knowe
not
in
that
countrey
,
that
there
is
any
difference
betweene
the
religious
well
disposed
:
and
the
tyrants
,
theeues
,
and
robbers
the
Spaniardes
.
Those
religious
men
therefore
right
happie
,
suffered
vniustly
,
and
for
the
wrong
so
suffered
,
there
is
no
doubt
but
they
are
very
martyres
,
and
doe
raigne
at
this
day
with
God
in
the
kingdome
of
heauen
in
blisse
,
who
woulde
that
by
their
obedience
they
shoulde
be
sent
thither
,
and
should
haue
an
entent
,
to
preache
and
spredde
the
holy
faith
,
and
saue
all
those
soules
,
and
suffer
those
afflictions
,
and
death
it selfe
when
it
shoulde
be
presented
vnto
them
for
Iesus
Christe
his
sake
crucified
.
An other
time
,
by
reason
of
the
great
tyrannies
and
execrable
actes
of
the
cursed
ones
,
bearing
the
name
of
Christians
,
the
Indians
slewe
other
two
religious
men
of
Saint
Dominickes
order
,
and
one
of
Saint
Frauncis
.
Whereof
I
ran
be
a
good
witnesse
for
that
I
escaped
at
the
time
miraculously
from
the
same
death
,
of
the
which
it
shoulde
be
a
harde
matter
to
entreat
,
and
woulde
bee
to
amase
men
,
by
reason
of
the
grieuousnes
and
horiblenesse
of
the
case
.
Wherefore
I
will
not
lay
it
abroad
(
for
being
too
tedious
)
vntil
his
tyme
,
and
at
the
day
of
iudgement
it
shall
bee
more
euident
,
when
God
shall
take
vengeance
of
the
theeueries
so
horrible
and
so
abhominable
as
are
doone
by
those
which
beare
the
name
of
Christians
against
the
Indians
.
An other
tyme
in
those
Prouinces
at
the
Cape
of
the
Codera
(
as
they
call
it
)
there
was
a
towne
,
the
Lorde
whereof
was
named
Higueroto
,
a
name
eyther
proper
to
the
person
,
or
it
may
bee
common
to
the
Lordes
of
the
place
.
This
Lorde
was
so
bounteous
,
and
his
people
so
vertuous
and
seruiceable
,
that
as
many
Spaniardes
as
came
thither
by
shippe
,
they
founde
there
good
entertaynement
,
meate
,
lodging
,
all
cheering
,
and
refreshing
.
This
saide
Lorde
had
also
deliuered
many
from
death
of
those
which
were
fledde
thither
out
of
other
Prouinces
,
where
they
had
ryoted
and
tyrannised
,
and
come
thither
sicke
,
and
halfe
dead
for
hunger
:
whom
they
refreshed
,
and
afterward
sent
them
away
safe
,
to
the
Ile
of
Perles
,
where
there
were
Spaniardes
,
and
might
haue
slayne
them
if
hee
had
woulde
,
without
that
euer
any
shoulde
haue
knowen
it
.
And
shortely
to
say
the
Spanish
did
call
the
Subiectes
of
Higurroto
,
the
house
and
harbour
of
euery
bodie
.
A
caytife
tyraunt
aduised
him selfe
to
outrage
that
people
also
,
when
as
they
thought
them selues
sure
enough
:
and
getting
him
to
a
shippe
,
hee
had
there
inuited
a
greate
number
of
people
to
come
a
boorde
her
as
they
were
accustomed
to
doe
,
and
to
trust
the
Spaniardes
.
A
great
number
of
people
being
entred
into
her
,
men
women
,
and
children
,
hee
hoysed
sayles
,
and
went
to
the
Ile
of
Saint
Iohn
,
where
hee
soulde
them
all
for
slaues
.
I
came
at
the
same
instant
to
the
Ile
of
Saint
Iohn
,
and
I
sawe
the
tyrant
,
and
vnderstood
what
he
had
done
.
Hee
had
destroyed
all
that
towneship
:
whereby
he
did
great
harme
to
all
other
his
fellow
tyrants
,
wonted
to
rob
,
and
roue
all
along
those
coasts
,
insomuch
as
they
had
in
abomination
this
act
so
hydeous
,
being
bereft
thereby
of
their
harbour
,
and
house
of
retire
,
as
ordinarie
&
familiar
vnto
them
as
it
had
bin
their
own
home
&
house
.
I
deport
me
to
recount
the
mischieues
infinite
,
and
cases
abominable
,
which
haue
bin
vsed
in
that
countrey
,
and
are
vsed
as
yet
.
They
haue
singled
out
at
times
from
all
this
coaste
,
the
which
was
very
wel
peopled
,
vnto
the
Iles
of
S.
Iohn
&
Hispaniola
,
aboue
two
millions
of
soules
,
seased
vpon
by
their
purchases
in
thieuing
and
robbing
:
which
also
euery
one
of
them
they
haue
slaine
not
long
after
,
by
thrusting
them
into
the
minerals
and
other
tormoyls
,
besides
the
great
numbers
there
were
there
alreadie
before
time
,
as
we
haue
aboue
said
.
And
it
is
a
pitifull
thing
,
and
able
to
make
any
heart
to
cleaue
,
were
it
neuer
so
harde
,
to
see
all
this
coast
of
a
countrey
most
fertile
,
to
bee
lefte
all
naked
and
emptie
of
people
.
It
is
a
tried
case
,
that
they
neuer
conuey
away
their
shippings
of
Indians
so
robbed
&
purchased
,
as
I
haue
said
,
but
that
they
cast
the
third
part
into
the
sea
,
besides
those
which
they
slay
,
when
they
will
sort
them
to
themselues
for
their
chafer
.
The
cause
is
,
that
when
as
they
will
by
all
meanes
atteine
to
the
ende
which
they
haue
proposed
to
them selues
:
they
haue
need
of
a
great
number
of
people
,
for
to
draw
a
great
deale
of
money
,
according
to
the
quantitie
of
the
slaues
:
&
they
prepare
but
a
very
small
deale
of
sustenance
and
water
,
to
serue
but
a
few
persons
:
to
the
ende
that
those
tyrants
whom
they
call
purueyghours
of
the
ships
should
not
spend
them
much
.
And
there
is
but
euen
scarse
enough
,
saue
to
serue
the
Spaniardes
turne
which
go
a
rouing
and
robbing
:
and
there
is
alwayes
wanting
for
the
poore
Indians
.
Wherefore
also
they
die
for
hunger
and
thirst
:
and
then
there
is
none
other
remedie
but
to
cast
them
ouer
the
boord
into
the
sea
.
And
verily
a
man
among
them
did
tell
me
,
that
from
the
Ile
of
Lucayos
,
where
had
been
wrought
great
slaughters
in
this
maner
,
vnto
the
Ile
of
Hispaniola
,
which
are
a
threescore
,
or
seuentie
leages
,
there
trended
a
ship
all
alongst
,
without
that
it
had
either
compasse
or
mariners
carde
,
being
guided
onely
by
the
tracke
of
dead
Indians
carkasses
,
flotting
vppon
the
seas
,
of
them
whiche
had
been
cast
in
.
And
after
they
be
landed
in
the
Ile
,
whither
they
bring
them
to
make
sale
of
them
:
it
is
to
make
an
heart
to
yearne
of
whosoeuer
,
haue
he
neuer
so
litle
compassion
,
to
behold
them
naked
and
famished
,
fall
downe
and
faint
for
hunger
and
thirst
,
women
,
and
aged
men
,
and
children
.
Afterwardes
they
soone
after
they
separate
them
,
as
it
were
Lambes
,
the
fathers
from
the
children
,
and
the
wiues
from
the
husbandes
,
in
making
troupes
of
them
of
tenne
or
twentie
persons
,
and
so
cast
lottes
on
them
,
to
the
ende
,
those
cursed
purnueighours
should
take
their
share
,
which
are
those
who
do
equipe
or
rig
,
and
furnish
two
or
three
ships
for
the
nauy
of
those
tirants
,
pirates
,
and
rouers
,
robbing
by
sea
&
land
,
seasing
vpon
all
they
come
by
,
and
pulling
the
poore
men
out
of
their
owne
housen
.
And
looke
when
the
lot
falleth
vpon
the
flock
where
there
were
among
them
any
old
or
sick
person
,
the
tyrant
to
whom
the
same
escheated
,
would
say
:
That
the
diuell
take
the
olde
graybeard
,
why
doest
thou
giue
him
mee
,
to
the
ende
I
shoulde
goe
burie
him
?
And
this
sicke
rascall
,
what
haue
I
to
doe
that
hee
shoulde
fall
out
to
my
lotte
:
to
the
ende
,
I
shoulde
bee
his
Phisition
to
cure
him
?
Hereby
a
man
may
see
,
in
what
estimation
the
Spaniardes
haue
the
Indians
,
and
howe
they
accomplishe
the
commaundement
of
God
,
touching
the
loue
of
their
neighbour
,
of
the
which
dependeth
the
lawe
and
the
Prophetes
.
The
tyrannie
whiche
the
Spanishe
exercise
ouer
the
Indians
,
to
fishe
for
Pearles
,
is
one
of
the
cruellest
and
cursedest
thynges
that
is
in
the
worlde
.
There
is
no
hell
in
this
life
,
nor
other
desperate
state
in
this
worlde
,
that
may
be
compared
vnto
it
:
although
that
the
trade
of
golde
finding
,
be
in
his
kinde
,
very
grieuous
,
and
very
miserable
.
They
let
them
into
the
sea
,
three
,
or
foure
,
or
fiue
fadome
forth
downe
right
vnder
water
,
from
the
morning
vntyll
sunnesette
,
where
they
are
continually
flitting
without
stint
,
to
plucke
oysters
,
in
the
which
are
engendred
the
pearles
.
They
surge
vp
aboue
the
waters
,
with
a
nette
full
of
oysters
to
take
breath
:
where
standeth
readie
a
Spanishe
tormentor
,
in
a
little
cocke
boate
,
or
a
brigantine
,
and
if
the
poore
wretches
stay
neuer
so
litle
while
,
to
rest
them selues
:
they
all
to
bee
buffet
them
with
their
fistes
,
and
draw
them
by
the
haire
into
the
water
to
returne
to
their
fishing
.
Their
sustenaunce
is
fishe
,
and
the
same
very
fish
which
contayneth
the
pearles
,
and
the
bread
Cacabi
,
or
some
Mahis
,
which
are
the
kindes
of
bread
of
that
countrey
:
the
one
of
very
slender
nourishment
,
the
other
is
not
easie
to
bee
made
into
breade
,
of
the
which
also
,
they
neuer
giue
them
their
belly
full
.
The
beddes
that
they
lodge
them
in
a
nights
,
is
to
set
them
by
the
heeles
,
their
bodies
requoyling
on
the
coulde
grounde
,
in
a
payre
of
stockes
for
feare
of
running
away
.
Sometymes
they
are
drowned
in
the
sea
,
and
at
their
fishing
and
trauayle
of
piking
of
pearles
,
and
neuer
rise
vp
agayne
aboue
the
water
:
because
the
Bunches
and
Whirlepooles
(
they
call
them
Tuberones
and
Maroxos
)
two
kinde
of
monsters
of
the
sea
most
cruell
,
which
deuour
a
man
all
whole
,
and
those
doe
kill
them
and
eate
them
.
Let
it
nowe
here
be
considered
,
whither
in
this
purchase
of
Pearles
,
the
commaundements
of
God
,
touching
the
loue
of
God
,
and
our
neyghbours
be
kept
,
or
not
:
when
they
throwe
those
people
into
daunger
of
bodyes
and
soules
.
For
they
slay
their
neighbours
by
their
couetousnesse
,
without
that
they
receiue
,
or
fayth
,
or
sacramentes
,
or
els
they
prolonge
them
in
a
state
of
life
so
horrible
,
that
they
bring
them
to
their
ende
,
and
consume
them
in
a
few
dayes
.
For
it
is
impossible
,
that
men
should
be
able
to
liue
any
long
season
vnder
the
water
without
taking
breath
,
the
continuall
cold
percing
them
:
&
so
they
die
commonly
,
parbraking
of
blood
at
the
mouth
:
because
of
the
kitting
together
of
their
chestes
,
or
bulke
of
the
breast
arising
thereof
,
that
they
are
so
continually
without
breathing
vnder
the
water
,
and
of
the
blooddy
fluxe
,
caused
by
the
cold
.
Theyr
haires
,
which
by
nature
are
cole
blacke
,
alter
and
become
after
a
branded
russette
,
like
to
the
haires
of
the
seawolues
.
The
salt
peeter
breaketh
out
of
their
shouldiers
,
in
such
sort
,
that
they
seeme
to
bee
a
kind
of
monsters
in
the
shape
of
men
,
or
els
some
other
kinde
of
men
.
They
dispatched
in
ridding
about
this
insupportable
trauayle
,
or
rather
to
speake
rightly
,
this
diuelish
torment
,
all
the
Lucayan
Indians
which
were
in
the
Iles
,
hauing
sauoured
this
gaynes
,
and
euery
Indian
was
worth
vnto
them
a
fiftie
,
or
an
hundred
Castillans
.
They
made
an
open
marte
of
them
,
notwithstauding
it
were
inhibited
them
,
by
the
magistrate
otherwise
vnmercifull
:
for
the
Lucayens
were
good
swimmers
.
They
also
,
about
these
thinges
haue
slayne
a
number
of
the
people
of
other
prouinces
.
Of
the
riuer
Yuia
Pari.
THere
runneth
through
the
prouince
of
Paria
,
a
riuer
named
Yuia
Pari
,
more
then
two
hundred
leagues
within
land
from
the
head
.
There
entred
the
same
riuer
,
an
vnluckie
tyraunt
,
a
great
manie
leagues
vpwarde
,
in
the
yeere
,
one
thousande
,
fiue
hundred
,
twentie
and
niene
with
a
foure
hundred
menne
or
more
:
whiche
there
wroght
greate
slaughters
,
burning
aliue
,
and
putting
to
the
edge
of
the
swoorde
,
an
infinite
sorte
of
Indians
,
whiche
were
in
their
landes
and
house●
doing
hurt
to
no
creature
,
and
therefore
secure
,
and
mistrusting
nothing
.
In
the
ende
hee
dyed
an
euill
death
,
and
his
Nauie
was
disperaged
:
albeic
that
other
tyraunts
there
were
which
succeeded
him
in
his
mischieuousnesses
and
tyrannies
:
and
yet
at
this
day
thither
they
goe
,
destroying
,
and
staying
,
and
plunging
into
hell
the
soules
for
whom
the
sonne
of
God
shed
his
blood
.
Of
the
realme
of
Venesuela
.
THe
yeere
1526.
the
king
our
Soueraigne
,
being
iuduced
by
sinister
informations
and
perswasions
dammageable
to
the
state
,
as
the
Spaniardes
haue
alwayes
payned
them selues
to
conceale
from
his
Maiestie
the
dammages
and
dishonours
which
GOD
and
the
soules
of
men
,
and
his
state
doeth
receiue
in
the
Indies
:
graunted
and
committed
a
great
realme
,
greater
then
all
Spayne
,
that
Venesuela
,
with
the
gouernement
and
entier
iurisdiction
,
vnto
certayne
Dutch
Marchaunts
,
with
certayne
capitulations
and
conuentions
accorded
beetweene
them
.
These
same
entring
the
countrey
with
three
hundred
men
:
they
found
the
people
very
amiable
,
&
meeke
as
lambes
,
as
they
are
all
in
those
parties
of
the
Indies
,
vntill
the
Spanish
do
outrage
them
.
These
see
vpon
them
without
comparison
a
great
deale
more
cruelly
,
then
any
of
the
other
tyrauntes
,
of
the
whiche
wee
haue
spoken
before
:
shewing
them selues
more
vnnaturall
and
fierce
,
then
raging
tygars
,
or
wolues
,
or
ramping
Lions
.
For
they
had
the
iurisdiction
of
the
whole
countrey
,
possessing
it
with
more
freedom
,
and
vsing
it
with
a
greater
care
,
and
starker
blinde
madnes
of
couetyse
,
seruing
their
owne
turnes
with
all
practises
and
cheuisaunees
,
to
get
and
gather
golde
and
siluer
,
more
then
all
they
of
whom
hath
bin
spoken
heretofore
:
hauing
wholly
shaken
off
all
feare
of
God
,
and
of
the
king
:
yea
,
hauing
forgotten
themselues
to
bee
men
.
These
diuels
incarnate
haue
saide
desolate
and
destroyed
,
more
then
foure
hundred
leagues
of
most
fertill
lande
,
and
therein
,
of
prouinces
exceeding
and
wonderfull
,
fayre
vayles
,
to
the
breadth
of
fourtie
leagues
,
and
hournes
verye
great
,
full
of
people
,
and
of
golde
.
They
haue
slayne
,
and
wholly
discomfited
great
and
diuers
nations
,
so
farre
foorth
as
to
abolishe
the
languages
wonted
to
bee
spoken
,
not
leauing
aliue
that
could
skill
of
them
:
vnlesse
some
one
or
other
,
who
had
hid
them selues
in
the
caues
and
bowels
of
the
earth
,
,
flying
the
dint
of
the
sworde
,
so
raging
and
plaging
.
They
haue
slayne
,
destroyed
,
and
sent
to
hell
by
diuers
and
strange
maners
of
cruelties
and
vngodlynesses
,
moe
(
I
supposse
)
then
foure
or
fiue
millions
of
soules
:
and
yet
at
this
present
,
they
cease
not
to
doe
the
same
,
by
infinite
outrages
,
spoyles
,
add
slaughters
,
which
they
haue
committed
,
and
doe
commit
dayly
vnto
this
present
.
I
will
onely
touch
three
or
foure
,
by
the
which
it
may
bee
iudged
of
others
,
which
they
vsed
to
accomplish
their
destructions
,
and
disolations
aboue
mentioned
.
They
tooke
the
Lord
soueraigne
of
all
the
prouince
without
all
cause
,
onely
to
bereeue
him
of
his
golde
,
giuing
him
also
the
torture
:
which
Lorde
vnbounde
himselfe
,
and
escaped
from
them
into
the
mountaynes
,
wherefore
also
the
subiectes
rose
and
were
in
a
mutinie
,
hiding
them selues
vpon
the
mountaynes
,
amongst
the
hedges
and
bushes
.
The
Spaniardes
make
after
to
chase
them
,
and
hauing
founde
them
,
commit
cruell
massacres
,
and
as
many
as
they
take
aliue
,
they
sell
them
in
port
sale
for
slaues
.
In
diuers
prouinces
,
yea
in
all
where
they
became
before
that
they
tooke
the
Soueraigne
Lorde
,
the
Indies
went
to
receyue
them
with
songes
,
and
daunces
,
and
with
presents
of
gold
in
great
quantitie
.
The
payment
made
them
,
was
,
to
bee
put
to
the
edge
of
the
sworde
,
and
hewen
in
peeces
.
One
time
,
as
they
went
to
receyue
the
Spanishe
in
the
fashion
abouesayde
:
the
Dutche
Captayne
tyraunt
,
caused
to
bee
put
in
a
thatched
house
a
greate
number
of
people
,
and
hackled
in
peeces
.
And
beeing
on
high
,
neere
the
top
of
the
house
certayne
beames
which
diuers
had
got
vpon
,
auoyding
the
blooddy
handes
and
swordes
of
those
people
(
O
mercilesse
beastes
)
the
diuelishe
man
,
sent
to
put
to
fire
,
wherby
as
many
as
there
were
,
were
burned
aliue
.
By
this
meanes
the
countrey
remained
very
desert
,
the
people
flying
into
the
mountaines
,
where
they
hoped
to
saue
themselues
.
They
came
into
another
great
prouince
,
in
the
confines
of
the
prouince
and
realme
or
Saint
Martha
,
where
they
found
the
Indians
peaceable
in
their
boroghs
,
&
in
th●ir
housen
,
doing
their
busines
,
they
continued
a
long
time
with
them
,
eating
their
store
,
and
the
Indians
serued
them
,
as
if
they
had
to
receiue
of
them
their
life
and
safegarde
,
supporting
their
continuall
oppressions
,
and
vsuall
outragiousnesses
,
which
are
intollerable
:
besides
that
one
Spanishe
glutton
,
eateth
more
in
one
day
,
then
woulde
suffice
an
whole
housholde
of
more
then
ten
Indians
.
They
gaue
them
at
that
time
,
a
great
quantitie
of
golde
,
of
their
owne
good
will
,
ouer
&
besides
,
other
seruices
innumerable
,
which
they
did
vnto
them
.
At
the
ende
as
these
tyrants
would
depart
the
place
,
they
aduised
to
pay
them
for
their
lodging
,
in
this
manner
.
The
Almain
tyrant
gouernour
,
commaunded
to
take
suche
Indians
as
they
could
,
with
their
wiues
and
children
,
and
that
they
should
shut
them
vp
within
an
inclosure
,
wounded
in
of
purpose
,
letting
them
know
,
that
who
so
would
come
forth
,
and
bee
let
go
free
,
that
he
should
redeeme
himselfe
at
the
pleasure
of
the
vniust
gouernour
:
in
giuing
so
much
golde
for
himselfe
,
so
much
for
his
wife
,
and
so
much
for
euery
polle
of
his
children
.
And
yet
to
presse
them
the
more
,
he
commanded
to
giue
them
nothing
to
eate
,
vntil
such
time
as
they
had
perfourmed
the
quantity
of
gold
inflicted
them
for
their
raunsome
.
Many
sent
to
their
housen
for
golde
,
and
bought
out
themselues
as
they
were
able
,
and
those
same
were
deliuered
,
and
went
abroad
about
their
busines
to
get
their
liuing
.
The
tyrant
sent
certain
Spanish
thieues
&
robbers
,
to
go
take
them
againe
the
second
time
,
after
they
had
bin
redeemed
.
They
are
carried
to
the
perclose
,
and
there
wrung
with
hunger
and
thirst
,
to
the
ende
,
that
they
shoulde
yet
once
agayn
pay
for
their
freedom
.
And
there
were
many
amongst
them
,
which
were
taken
and
ransommed
two
or
three
sundry
times
.
Others
which
had
not
to
giue
,
for
because
they
had
all
they
had
,
he
let
them
within
the
toyse
dye
for
hunger
.
And
in
this
maner
hath
bin
destroyed
a
prouince
very
riche
of
people
and
golde
,
the
which
hath
a
vale
or
bourne
of
fourtie
leagues
,
where
hath
beene
brent
a
borough
of
the
receite
of
a
thousande
housholdes
.
This
Tyrant
resolued
with
himselfe
to
pearce
farther
into
the
countrie
,
with
a
great
desire
to
discouer
on
that
side
,
the
same
hill
of
Peru.
By
occasion
of
which
accursed
voyage
both
hee
and
others
carried
foorth
with
them
,
Indians
infinite
,
loden
with
two
or
three
quintalles
weight
,
and
beeing
enchained
.
If
any
were
weake
or
wearie
,
fainting
for
hunger
,
or
trauelling
,
they
cut
incontinent
his
head
off
euen
with
the
coller
of
the
chaine
that
yoked
them
:
because
they
shoulde
not
neede
to
vnhamper
the
others
that
went
with
the
same
collers
aboute
their
neckes
,
and
so
tombled
the
head
on
the
one
side
,
and
the
bodie
on
the
other
.
And
the
load
of
him
that
had
so
failed
was
distributed
and
bestowed
vpon
others
.
To
tel
of
the
Prouinces
,
whiche
hee
hath
layed
desart
,
and
the
townes
and
places
which
hee
hath
brent
,
for
all
the
houses
are
thetched
,
and
to
number
the
nations
which
hee
hath
slaine
,
and
the
cruelties
,
and
murders
particuler
,
which
hee
hath
committed
by
the
may
,
it
would
be
a
thing
scarce
credible
:
howbeit
very
true
and
wonderfull
.
In
this
same
very
course
and
steppes
marched
sithence
the
other
tyrants
,
who
came
from
the
said
Venesuela
,
and
others
of
the
Prouince
of
S.
Martha
,
with
the
selfe
same
holy
intention
to
discouer
the
same
sacred
golden
palace
of
Peru
:
and
founde
the
whole
countrie
in
length
more
then
two
hundred
leagues
so
burned
,
dispeopled
,
&
spoyled
,
hauing
been
before
most
notablie
peopled
and
most
fertill
,
as
hath
been
said
,
that
themselues
as
very
tyrantes
and
sauage
beastes
as
they
were
,
wondered
and
stood
astonished
to
see
the
trackes
of
the
destructions
so
lamentable
,
wheresouer
he
had
passed
.
All
these
thinges
haue
been
giuen
in
euidence
with
the
depositions
of
many
witnesses
by
the
Atturney
of
the
councel
of
the
Indies
,
and
the
euidences
are
kept
amongst
the
Recordes
of
the
same
councell
:
and
yet
haue
they
neuer
burnt
aliue
,
any
of
those
execrable
tyrants
.
And
this
is
nothing
of
all
that
whiche
hath
beene
proued
,
of
the
great
outrages
and
mischieues
which
these
haue
committed
.
For
as
much
as
the
ministers
of
iustice
,
which
vntill
this
time
haue
him
in
the
Indies
,
by
reason
of
their
great
wilfull
and
damnable
blyndnesse
,
haue
neuer
troubled
themselues
to
examine
the
offences
,
spoyles
,
and
murders
,
which
haue
beene
wrought
,
and
yet
presently
are
wrought
by
the
tyrants
in
the
Indies
:
saue
only
they
will
say
,
because
suche
hath
cruelly
intreated
the
Indies
,
the
king
hath
lost
of
his
reuenews
so
many
thousande
Castilians
in
rent
,
and
this
little
verdict
ouer
general
and
confused
,
must
suffice
for
the
disclaime
of
so
many
villanies
.
And
yet
that
litle
which
they
take
vpon
them
,
they
doe
not
auerr
,
nor
deuiur
vpon
,
as
they
ought
to
do
.
For
if
they
had
regarde
of
their
dutie
to
God
and
the
king
,
it
woulde
bee
founde
,
that
those
Almaine
tyrants
haue
robbed
the
king
of
aboue
three
thousand
Castillans
of
gold
.
For
those
prouinces
of
Venesuela
with
the
others
which
they
haue
laid
waste
,
and
dispeopled
more
then
four
hundred
leagues
forthright
,
as
hath
bin
saide
,
is
a
region
the
most
blisfull
,
and
the
richest
of
golde
,
and
was
the
best
peopled
of
any
in
the
worlde
:
in
such
sort
,
that
they
haue
disturned
from
the
kinges
cofers
,
and
occasioned
the
losse
in
this
Realm
of
aboue
two
millions
of
rent
,
within
seuenteene
yeeres
sithence
by
past
,
that
these
enemies
of
God
and
the
king
haue
begunne
to
destroy
it
:
neither
is
there
any
hope
that
euer
those
losses
will
be
repayred
as
long
as
the
worlde
shall
indure
:
vnlesse
it
be
,
that
God
shold
myraculously
rayse
as
many
millions
of
soules
as
are
deceased
.
It
shall
not
bee
out
of
the
way
to
consider
,
of
what
sortes
and
howe
excessiue
haue
beene
the
damages
,
dishonours
,
blasphemies
,
&
infamies
,
which
God
&
his
lawe
hath
receiued
:
And
wherewithall
may
bee
recouered
&
recompensed
the
losse
of
so
many
soules
as
burne
in
hell
fire
through
the
auarice
and
crueltie
of
those
tyrants
Almains
,
shall
I
say
,
or
All●uains
?
Onely
I
will
conclude
the
discourse
of
their
vngraciousnesse
and
crueltie
heerewith
.
That
is
,
that
sithence
they
entred
the
country
vnto
this
present
,
that
is
to
say
,
these
seuenteene
yeres
they
haue
sent
by
Sea
a
great
number
of
ships
loaden
&
stuffed
with
Indians
,
to
make
sale
of
them
as
slaues
at
S.
Martha
,
at
the
Isles
of
Hispaniola
,
and
of
Iamayca
,
and
at
Saint
Iohns
Isle
,
moe
then
one
million
:
and
doe
sende
dayly
,
as
nowe
this
yeere
one
thousand
,
fiue
hundred
,
fortie
two
:
the
Court
of
the
Audience
royall
notwithstanding
stablished
,
for
,
and
at
Hispaniola
,
right
well
seeing
all
this
,
and
dissimuling
to
see
it
,
yea
,
fauouring
and
supporting
all
the
matter
:
as
likewise
they
haue
had
theyr
eyes
bended
at
all
the
other
tyrannies
and
ransackings
infinite
,
which
hath
been
done
in
all
this
coast
of
this
firme
land
which
are
about
foure
hundred
leagues
,
the
which
haue
been
and
nowe
are
vnder
their
iurisdiction
,
like
vnto
Venesuela
,
&
saint
Martha
:
all
which
the
said
court
might
very
well
haue
empeached
and
remedied
.
There
is
none
other
cause
of
putting
all
these
Indians
vnder
yoke
of
bondage
,
saue
the
only
peruerse
,
wilfully
blinde
,
and
obstinate
greedines
,
and
insatiable
wretchednesse
of
these
most
couetous
tyrants
,
and
all
to
haue
,
and
heape
vp
goods
like
as
hath
had
all
the
rest
throughout
all
the
Indies
,
ramping
these
silly
lambes
and
sheepe
out
of
their
houses
,
and
carrying
their
wiues
and
children
in
the
maners
of
proceeding
so
cruel
and
execrable
as
hath
been
said
,
branding
them
with
the
kings
marke
,
to
make
them
vendible
for
slaues
.
Of
the
Prouinces
of
the
firme
lande
,
or
quarter
that
is
called
Florida
.
INto
these
Prouinces
went
three
tyrantes
at
three
diuers
times
since
the
yeere
1510.
or
1511.
there
to
put
in
vre
the
actes
which
others
,
and
two
of
them
from
among
themselues
haue
committed
in
other
quarters
of
the
Indians
:
to
the
end
to
aspyre
to
high
degrees
,
in
no
respect
conuenient
to
their
persons
,
higher
then
their
merites
in
the
common
wealth
could
conceaue
,
with
the
blood
&
destruction
of
their
neighbours
:
and
they
are
dead
all
three
of
an
euill
death
,
&
their
houses
likewise
haue
been
destroyed
with
them
,
the
which
they
had
builded
in
times
past
,
with
the
blood
of
mankinde
,
as
I
can
be
a
sufficient
witnes
of
all
three
,
and
their
memorie
is
nowe
abolished
from
of
the
face
of
the
earth
,
as
if
they
had
neuer
beene
in
this
worlde
.
They
left
all
this
Countrie
in
disorder
,
and
confusion
,
and
their
owne
manners
in
infamie
and
horror
,
for
certaine
slaughters
whiche
they
did
there
,
notwithstanding
not
so
manie
,
for
as
much
as
God
plagued
them
with
death
before
they
coulde
doe
any
more
,
and
kept
them
from
this
outrage
in
this
place
,
for
the
euils
for
I
knowe
,
and
haue
seene
that
they
did
in
other
partes
of
the
Indies
.
The
fourth
tyrant
,
that
came
last
in
the
yere
.
1538.
cunningly
aduised
,
and
beeing
fully
furnished
:
it
is
three
yeeres
since
there
is
no
tidinges
concerning
him
.
Wee
are
certaine
that
incontinent
after
his
entrie
thither
:
hee
hath
behaued
himself
cruelly
,
and
since
hath
beene
as
a
man
vanished
.
That
if
he
be
aliue
,
hee
and
his
mainies
haue
destroyed
these
three
yeeres
a
great
many
mightie
peoples
,
if
hee
hath
found
any
in
his
enquest
as
hee
hath
gone
:
for
sure
he
is
one
of
the
notoriousest
and
best
experimented
amongest
them
that
haue
done
the
most
hurts
,
mischieues
,
and
destructions
in
many
Realmes
with
their
consorts
:
wherefore
I
beleeue
that
God
hath
giuen
him
like
end
vnto
the
others
.
Three
or
foure
yeeres
after
the
writing
of
the
aboue
written
,
came
out
of
the
Florida
the
head
of
the
petie
tyrants
which
went
thither
with
this
captaine
tyrant
,
that
there
left
his
bones
:
of
whome
wee
vnderstood
the
cruelties
and
euilles
,
whiche
there
during
his
life
time
principailly
,
and
vnder
his
conduct
&
gouernment
,
and
since
after
his
cursed
death
,
the
vnnaturall
men
haue
executed
against
the
Indians
innocent
,
and
harmeful
to
none
,
to
verifie
that
which
I
had
prognosticate
before
,
they
being
so
excessiue
,
that
they
haue
the
more
confirmed
the
rule
by
mee
set
downe
before
at
the
beginning
,
that
the
farther
they
proceeded
to
discouer
,
destroy
,
and
to
waste
countries
and
lands
:
the
more
cruelties
and
notorious
wickednesses
they
woulde
doe
against
God
,
and
against
their
neighbours
.
It
loatheth
mee
to
recount
those
actes
so
cursed
,
ghastly
,
and
bloodie
,
not
of
men
but
of
sauage
beastes
:
and
therfore
I
would
not
trouble
my
head
to
stand
rehearsing
those
which
followed
afterwards
.
They
found
many
great
nations
,
and
wise
common
weales
well
instituted
for
pollicie
and
ordinances
.
They
executed
vpon
them
great
slaughters
after
their
custome
,
to
the
ende
to
imprint
in
their
heartes
an
awe
.
They
martyred
and
murdered
them
,
and
loded
them
with
weightie
packes
like
beastes
.
And
when
any
was
foreweeried
or
forespent
,
to
the
ende
they
shoulde
not
need
to
loose
the
chain
.
in
the
which
they
were
giued
in
collers
,
before
they
come
at
him
that
fainted
,
they
pare
off
the
head
from
the
collar
brymme
,
the
Troncke
tombling
one
way
,
and
the
chaine
another
:
as
we
haue
before
recounted
to
haue
beene
vsed
otherwise
.
Entring
a
borough
,
where
they
were
receaued
with
ioy
,
and
the
Indians
giuing
them
to
eate
their
fill
,
and
giuing
them
of
Indians
more
then
sixe
hundred
to
carry
their
fardels
,
carrying
the
heafte
of
beastes
in
their
seruice
,
and
dressing
theyr
horses
:
the
tyrants
being
departed
thence
,
a
captaine
kinsman
of
the
principall
tyrant
returned
to
rob
the
people
,
being
without
distruste
&
without
feare
,
and
slue
with
the
thrustes
of
Launce
the
Lorde
and
Kyng
of
the
Countrie
,
executing
besides
other
cruelties
.
In
another
borough
,
forasmuch
as
it
seemed
them
that
they
were
a
little
too
neere
neighbours
,
&
stood
more
on
their
warde
,
for
the
actes
villanous
and
infamous
,
which
they
had
hearde
of
them
:
they
put
to
the
edge
of
the
sworde
and
launce
,
young
&
olde
,
great
and
little
,
subiect
and
soueraigne
,
taking
to
mercy
no
creature
whosoeuer
.
The
head
tyrant
caused
to
pare
off
the
nose
and
lips
downe
to
the
chin
of
a
great
number
of
Indians
,
yea
,
more
then
200.
(
as
is
said
)
that
they
had
caused
to
bee
sent
for
from
a
certaine
borough
,
or
it
may
bee
came
of
their
owne
good
will
.
And
thus
in
this
estate
so
rufull
,
and
in
these
sorrowes
and
anguishes
of
blood
streaming
downe
,
they
sent
them
away
:
to
the
end
they
might
go
carry
newes
of
the
holy
woorkes
and
myracles
,
which
these
preachers
of
the
sacred
catholike
faith
,
&
baptised
,
had
wrought
.
Let
it
nowe
bee
iudged
,
what
kinde
of
people
these
were
,
what
loue
they
beare
to
the
Christians
,
and
howe
they
doe
beleeue
that
God
is
,
whome
they
say
to
bee
perfectly
mercifull
and
righteous
,
and
that
the
lawe
and
the
religion
,
of
the
whiche
they
make
profession
,
and
doe
vaunt
themselues
,
is
without
blemish
.
The
mischiefes
are
exceeding
sore
&
strange
,
which
those
vngracious
caytiues
,
children
of
perdition
there
committed
.
And
thus
the
desperate
and
vnluckie
Captayne
dyed
without
confession
:
and
we
neede
not
to
doubte
but
that
he
lyeth
buried
in
hell
:
if
algates
God
of
his
infinite
mercy
secretly
dispensed
in
his
hidden
wisdome
hath
not
preuented
him
,
not
dealing
with
him
,
after
his
demerites
,
in
respect
of
his
vngracions
lewdnes
.
Of
the
riuer
of
la
Plata
,
that
is
to
say
,
of
siluer
.
SIthence
the
yeere
,
one
thousande
fiue
hundred
,
and
two
or
three
and
twentie
:
certaine
Captaines
made
three
or
foure
voyages
vppe
the
Riuer
of
Plata
,
where
there
are
great
Prouinces
and
Realmes
,
and
nations
well
ordered
and
endued
with
vnderstanding
.
In
generall
we
vnderstood
,
that
they
haue
made
there
greate
butcheries
and
inuasions
:
but
like
as
this
Countrie
is
farre
discoasted
from
the
Indies
most
famous
,
so
we
are
not
able
,
to
quote
the
notablest
points
in
particuler
.
Wee
doubt
no
whit
notwithstanding
,
but
that
they
haue
done
and
doe
keepe
as
yet
at
this
houre
the
same
order
of
proceedings
as
hath
beene
kept
,
and
are
in
other
quarters
:
for
they
bee
the
selfesame
Spaniardes
,
and
there
are
amongest
them
of
those
same
,
whiche
haue
trauersed
in
other
actes
and
exploites
such
as
hath
beene
specified
.
Moreouer
,
theyr
going
thither
,
is
to
become
riche
and
great
Lordes
as
well
as
others
:
that
which
cannot
bee
done
without
spoyling
,
robbinge
,
slaying
,
and
extirping
the
Indians
,
in
maner
and
order
holden
by
the
others
.
After
the
writing
the
abouesaid
,
I
haue
vnderstood
,
that
of
a
truth
,
they
haue
wasted
and
dispeopled
great
Prouinces
and
Realmes
in
that
Countrie
,
exercising
strange
slaughters
&
cruelties
vpon
these
poore
people
there
,
for
the
whiche
they
haue
abled
themselues
as
forwarde
in
wickednesse
,
or
forwarder
then
any
other
,
as
hauing
the
commoditie
by
the
greater
distance
from
Spaine
,
to
sinne
the
Freer
,
and
by
occasion
ther
of
haue
liued
the
more
disordered
and
farthest
off
from
iustice
:
howbeit
that
in
all
the
Indies
,
there
hath
beene
no
regarde
of
Iustice
,
as
appeareth
sufficiently
,
by
that
which
hath
beene
aboue
saide
.
Amongest
an
infinite
sort
of
other
thinges
wee
reade
at
the
counsell
table
for
the
Indies
,
these
also
which
shall
bee
spoken
of
hereafter
.
A
tyrant
gouernour
gaue
in
commande
to
certaine
his
bands
to
goe
assault
the
Indians
,
and
that
if
they
gaue
them
not
to
eate
they
shoulde
kill
them
al.
They
went
armed
with
this
authoritie
.
And
for
because
the
Indians
would
giue
them
none
as
being
open
enemies
,
more
for
feare
of
the
sighte
of
them
,
as
flying
from
them
then
for
want
of
liberalitie
,
they
put
to
the
edge
of
the
swoorde
more
then
fiue
thousande
soules
.
Item
a
certaine
number
of
the
folke
of
the
Countrie
came
to
put
themselues
into
their
handes
,
and
presented
them
their
seruice
,
whome
at
aduenture
they
had
sent
for
:
and
for
because
they
came
not
so
soone
,
or
for
because
they
woulde
after
their
accustomed
fashion
,
engraue
in
them
an
horrible
and
astonishable
terrour
:
the
grouernour
commaunded
that
they
should
put
them
into
the
handes
of
other
Indians
,
whome
they
holde
for
their
enemies
:
whereupon
they
came
weeping
and
crying
,
and
beseeching
them
that
they
woulde
slay
them
,
themselues
,
and
not
deliuer
them
into
the
power
of
their
enemies
,
and
hauing
no
mind
to
yeede
out
of
their
houses
where
they
were
,
they
were
cut
in
peeces
,
crying
,
and
saying
:
Wee
come
to
serue
you
in
peace
,
and
do
you
slay
vs
?
Our
blood
remaine
imprinted
on
this
wall
,
for
a
witnesse
against
you
of
our
vniust
death
,
and
your
barbarous
crueltie
.
Certes
,
this
was
an
act
of
speciall
marke
,
worthie
to
be
remembred
,
and
much
more
to
bee
lamented
.
Of
the
mightie
Realmes
,
and
large
Prouinces
of
Peru.
IN
the
yeere
1531.
went
another
great
tyrant
with
certaine
other
consortes
,
to
the
Realmes
of
Peru
,
where
entring
with
the
same
title
and
intention
,
and
with
the
same
proceedings
as
all
the
rest
before
gone
,
forasmuch
as
hee
was
one
of
them
,
which
had
of
long
tune
beene
exercised
in
all
kindes
of
cruelties
and
murders
,
which
had
beene
wrought
in
the
firme
lande
sithence
the
yeere
one
thousande
fiue
hundred
,
and
ten
,
hee
tooke
encouragement
to
accrewe
in
cruelties
,
murders
,
&
robberies
:
beeing
a
man
without
loyaltie
and
truth
,
laying
waste
Cities
and
Countries
,
bringing
them
to
nought
,
and
vtterly
vndoeyng
them
by
slaying
the
inhabitaunts
,
and
beeing
the
cause
of
all
the
euils
,
whiche
ensued
in
that
Countrie
:
that
I
am
right
well
assured
,
that
there
is
not
a
man
that
can
recounte
them
and
represent
them
to
the
eyes
of
the
Readers
,
as
is
requisite
,
vntill
such
time
that
wee
shall
see
them
and
knowe
them
at
the
day
of
iudgement
.
As
touching
my self
,
if
I
woulde
take
vppon
met
,
to
recounte
the
deformitie
,
qualitie
and
circumstances
of
some
one
,
I
were
not
able
to
decipher
them
,
acording
to
that
which
is
conuenient
.
Hee
slue
and
laide
waste
at
his
firste
arriuall
with
a
mischiefe
certaine
boroughes
,
from
whome
hee
pillaged
a
greate
quantitie
of
Golde
.
In
an
Ilande
neere
to
the
same
prouinces
,
named
Pagna
,
well
peopled
and
pleasant
,
the
Lord
thereof
with
his
people
receiued
them
as
it
had
been
Angels
from
heauen
:
and
sixe
monethes
after
,
when
as
the
Spanishe
had
eaten
vppe
all
theyr
prouision
:
They
discouered
also
vnto
them
the
corne
whiche
they
kept
vnder
grounde
for
them selues
,
their
wiues
,
and
their
children
,
against
a
drie
time
and
barren
:
making
them
offer
of
all
,
with
teers
plentiful
,
to
spende
and
eate
at
theyr
pleasure
.
The
recompence
in
the
ende
whiche
they
made
them
,
was
,
to
put
to
the
edge
of
the
sworde
and
launce
,
a
great
quantitie
of
those
people
.
And
those
whom
they
could
take
aliue
,
they
made
them
slaues
:
with
other
cruelties
great
and
notable
which
they
committed
,
dispeopling
as
it
were
all
that
I
le
.
From
thence
they
make
to
the
pronince
of
Tumbala
,
whiche
is
in
the
firme
lande
,
where
they
slay
and
destroy
as
many
as
they
coulde
come
by
.
And
because
all
the
people
were
fled
as
affrighted
by
their
horrible
acces
,
they
sayde
that
they
made
an
insurrection
,
and
rebelled
against
the
king
of
Spayne
.
This
tyraunt
had
this
policie
,
and
kept
this
order
of
proceeding
,
that
,
vnto
all
those
whom
hee
toake
,
or
vnto
others
which
presented
him
with
golde
or
siluer
,
or
other
thinges
which
they
had
:
hee
commaunded
them
to
bring
more
,
vntill
such
time
as
hee
perceiued
that
either
they
had
no
more
,
or
that
they
brought
him
no
more
.
And
then
hee
woulde
say
,
that
hee
accepted
them
for
the
vassals
and
lieges
of
the
kinge
of
Spaine
,
and
made
muche
of
them
:
and
woulde
cause
it
to
bee
proclaymed
at
sounde
of
two
trompettes
,
that
from
thence
forth
they
woulde
take
them
no
more
,
and
that
they
woulde
doe
them
no
maner
harme
at
all
:
setting
it
downe
for
good
and
lawfull
,
all
that
whatsoeuer
hee
had
robbed
from
them
.
And
that
hee
put
them
in
feare
with
newes
so
abhominable
which
hee
spredde
amongst
them
,
before
hee
receiued
them
into
the
safegarde
and
protection
of
the
king
,
as
though
that
after
they
were
receiued
vnder
the
protection
of
the
king
,
they
woulde
not
oppresse
them
,
robbe
them
,
lay
them
waste
and
desolate
any
more
,
yea
and
as
though
he
had
not
destroyed
them
.
A
fewe
dayes
after
,
the
king
&
Emperour
of
those
realmes
,
named
Atabaliba
,
came
accompanied
with
a
number
of
naked
people
,
bearing
their
ridiculous
armour
,
not
knowing
neyther
howe
swordes
did
carue
,
nor
speares
did
pearce
,
nor
horses
did
runne
,
nor
who
or
what
were
the
Spaniardes
:
who
if
the
diuelles
had
any
money
,
woulde
set
them selues
in
enquest
to
goe
robbe
them
.
Hee
commeth
to
the
place
where
they
were
,
saying
:
Where
are
these
Spaniardes
?
Let
them
come
,
I
will
not
stirre
a
foote
,
till
they
satisfie
mee
for
my
subiectes
whome
they
haue
slayne
,
and
my
boroughs
which
they
haue
dispeopled
,
and
for
my
wealth
,
which
they
haue
bereeued
mee
.
The
Spaniardes
set
against
him
,
and
slue
and
infinite
sorte
of
his
people
:
they
tooke
him
also
in
person
,
who
came
caried
in
a
litter
born
vpon
mens
shouldiers
.
They
treat
with
him
,
to
the
ende
that
hee
shoulde
raunsome
himselfe
.
The
king
offereth
to
perfourme
foure
millions
of
Castillans
,
and
performeth
fifteene
,
they
promise
to
release
him
:
notwithstanding
in
the
ende
,
keeping
nor
faith
nor
trueth
(
as
they
neuer
kept
any
in
the
Indies
vnto
the
Indians
)
they
layed
vnto
his
charge
altogether
vntruly
,
that
by
his
commaundement
the
people
assembled
.
The
king
answered
,
that
in
all
the
countrey
there
mooued
not
a
leafe
of
a
tree
,
without
his
good
will
:
that
if
there
assembled
any
people
,
they
were
to
beleeue
that
it
was
by
his
commaundement
,
and
as
touching
himselfe
that
hee
was
prisoner
,
and
they
might
slay
him
.
All
this
not
withstanding
,
they
condemned
him
to
bee
brent
aliue
:
but
at
the
request
of
some
certayne
,
the
Captayne
caused
him
to
bee
strangled
:
and
beeing
strangled
,
hee
was
burned
.
This
king
vnderstanding
his
sentence
,
sayde
:
Wherefore
will
you
burne
mee
?
What
trespasse
haue
I
done
yee
?
Did
not
you
promise
mee
to
set
mee
at
libertie
,
if
I
gaue
you
the
golde
?
and
haue
I
not
performed
more
then
I
promised
?
Seeinges
you
will
needes
haue
it
so
?
sende
mee
to
your
king
of
Spayne
:
speaking
other
thinges
,
to
the
great
confusion
and
detestation
of
the
great
wrongfulnesse
that
the
Spaniardes
vsed
,
whom
in
the
ende
they
burned
.
Here
let
be
considered
the
right
and
title
of
this
warfare
,
the
imprisonment
of
this
prince
,
the
sentence
,
and
the
execution
of
his
death
,
and
the
conscience
,
whereby
they
possesse
great
treasures
,
as
in
deed
they
haue
robbed
in
those
realmes
from
this
king
and
other
seuerall
lordes
infinite
.
As
touching
the
innumerable
cruelties
,
and
notable
,
for
the
mischiefes
and
enormities
withall
committed
in
the
rooting
out
of
those
peoples
by
them
,
who
call
them selues
Christians
:
I
will
here
rehearse
some
certayne
,
the
which
a
fryer
of
S.
Frauncis
order
sawe
at
the
beginning
,
and
the
same
certified
vnder
his
name
and
signe
:
sending
them
into
all
those
quarters
,
and
amongst
others
into
this
realme
of
Castile
,
whereof
I
retayne
a
copie
in
my
keeping
in
the
which
it
is
thus
written
:
I
Frier
Marke
,
of
the
order
of
Saint
Frauncis
,
commissarie
ouer
the
other
friers
of
the
same
order
in
the
prouinces
of
Peru
,
and
who
was
one
of
the
first
religious
men
,
with
entred
into
the
saide
prouinces
with
the
Spaniardes
:
doe
say
,
bearing
true
testimonie
of
certayne
things
,
the
which
I
haue
seene
with
mine
eyes
in
that
countrey
,
namely
,
concerning
the
entreating
and
conquestes
made
ouer
the
naturall
inhabitaunts
of
the
countrey
:
first
of
all
,
I
am
an
eyed
witnesse
,
and
haue
certayn
knoweledge
,
that
those
Indians
of
Peru
,
are
a
people
the
most
kinde
hearted
that
hath
been
seen
among
all
the
Indians
,
beeing
curteous
in
conuersation
,
and
friendly
vnto
the
Spaniardes
.
And
I
sawe
them
giue
to
the
Spanishe
in
abundaunce
,
golde
,
siluer
,
and
precious
stones
,
and
all
that
was
asked
them
,
and
that
they
had
,
doing
them
all
kinde
of
seruice
lawfull
.
And
the
Indians
neuer
yeelded
foorth
to
warre
,
but
kept
them
in
peace
so
long
time
,
as
they
gaue
them
not
occasion
,
by
their
euill
entreating
of
them
and
their
cruelties
,
but
contrariwise
receiued
them
with
all
amitie
and
honour
in
their
boroughes
,
in
giuing
them
to
eate
,
and
as
many
slaues
mankinde
and
women
kind
,
as
they
demaunded
for
their
seruice
.
Item
I
am
witnesse
,
that
without
that
the
Indians
gaue
occasion
:
the
Spanish
as
soone
as
they
were
entred
the
lande
,
after
that
the
greate
Cacike
Atabaliba
,
had
giuen
to
the
Spanish
more
then
two
millions
of
gold
,
and
had
put
into
their
power
the
whole
countrie
without
resistance
,
incontinent
they
burned
the
said
Atabaliba
which
was
Lord
of
the
whole
countrie
.
And
after
him
they
brent
his
captayne
generall
Cochilimaca
,
who
had
come
to
the
gouernour
in
peace
with
other
Lords
.
In
the
like
maner
,
also
a
fewe
dayes
after
they
burned
a
great
Lorde
named
Chamba
,
of
the
prouince
of
Quito
,
without
any
fault
at
all
,
and
without
hauing
giuen
the
least
occasion
that
might
bee
.
In
like
maner
they
burned
vniustly
Schappera
Lorde
of
the
Canaries
.
Also
they
brent
the
feete
of
Aluis
a
great
Lorde
amongst
all
those
which
were
in
Quito
,
and
caused
him
to
endure
sundrie
other
torments
,
to
make
him
tell
where
was
the
gold
of
Atabaliba
:
of
the
whiche
treasure
as
it
appeared
,
hee
knewe
nothing
.
Also
they
brent
in
Quito
Cosopanga
,
who
was
gouernour
of
all
the
prouinces
of
Quito
,
which
vpon
the
request
to
him
first
made
by
Sebastian
of
Bernalcasar
Captayne
vnder
the
gouernour
,
was
come
to
them
in
peace
:
and
onely
because
hee
gaue
them
not
golde
so
much
as
hee
demaunded
of
him
their
burned
him
with
very
many
other
Caciks
and
principall
Lorde
▪
And
for
ought
that
I
can
vnderstand
,
the
intente
of
the
Spaniards
was
,
that
there
shoulde
not
bee
lefte
aliue
one
Lorde
in
the
whole
countrey
.
Item
I
certifie
,
that
the
Spaniardes
caused
to
assemble
a
great
number
of
the
Indians
,
and
socked
them
vp
in
three
great
housen
,
as
many
as
coulde
be
pored
in
,
and
setting
to
fire
,
they
burned
them
all
,
without
that
they
had
done
the
least
thing
that
might
bee
,
or
had
giuen
to
the
Spanishe
the
least
occasion
thereof
whatsoeuer
.
And
it
came
to
passe
,
that
a
priest
,
who
is
named
Ocanna
,
drewe
a
young
boy
out
of
the
fire
,
in
the
which
hee
burned
,
which
perceiuing
an
other
Spaniarde
tooke
from
out
of
his
handes
the
boy
,
and
flunge
him
into
the
middest
of
the
flames
,
where
he
was
resolued
into
ashes
together
with
others
.
The
which
Spaniarde
returning
the
same
day
to
the
campe
,
fell
downe
dead
suddenly
,
and
mine
aduice
was
hee
should
not
bee
buried
.
Item
I
affirme
,
to
haue
seene
with
myne
owne
eyes
,
that
the
Spanishe
haue
cutte
the
handes
,
the
noses
,
and
the
eares
of
the
Indians
,
and
of
their
women
,
without
any
other
cause
or
purpose
,
saue
onely
that
so
it
came
into
their
fantasie
,
and
that
in
so
many
places
and
quarters
,
that
it
shoulde
bee
too
tedious
to
rehearse
.
And
I
haue
seene
,
that
the
Spanishe
haue
made
their
Mastiues
runne
vpon
the
Indians
to
rent
them
in
pieces
.
And
moreouer
,
I
haue
seene
by
them
brent
so
many
houses
,
and
whole
borughes
,
or
towneshippes
,
that
I
am
not
able
to
tell
the
number
.
Also
it
is
true
,
that
they
violently
plucked
the
little
infants
from
the
mothers
dugges
,
and
taking
them
by
the
armes
,
did
throwe
them
from
them
as
farre
as
they
coulde
:
Together
with
other
enormities
and
cruelties
without
any
cause
,
whiche
gaue
me
astonishment
to
behold
them
,
and
woulde
be
to
long
to
rehearse
them
.
Item
,
I
sawe
when
as
they
sent
for
the
Cacikes
and
other
principall
Indians
,
to
come
see
them
in
peace
,
and
assuraunce
to
them
made
,
promising
them
safe
conduct
:
and
incontinent
as
they
were
arriued
,
they
burned
them
.
They
burned
two
whiles
I
was
present
,
the
one
in
Andon
,
and
the
other
in
Tumbala
:
and
I
coulde
neuer
preuaile
with
them
to
haue
them
deliuered
from
burning
,
preached
I
vnto
them
neuer
so
muche
.
And
in
God
and
my
conscience
,
for
ought
that
euer
I
coulde
perceiue
,
the
Indians
of
Peru
,
neuer
lift
themselues
vp
,
nor
neuer
rebelled
for
any
other
cause
,
but
for
the
euill
entreating
of
the
other
side
,
as
is
manifest
vnto
euery
one
,
and
for
iust
cause
:
the
Spaniardes
destroying
them
tyrannously
against
all
reason
and
iustice
,
with
al
their
countrey
,
working
vpon
them
so
many
outrages
,
that
they
were
determined
to
die
,
rather
then
to
suffer
much
an
other
time
.
Item
I
say
,
that
by
the
reporte
of
the
Indians
themselues
,
there
is
yet
more
golde
hidden
then
is
come
to
light
,
the
whiche
because
of
the
vniustices
and
cruelties
of
the
Spaniardes
,
they
woulde
not
discouer
,
neyther
euer
will
discouer
,
so
long
as
they
shall
bee
so
euyll
entreated
,
but
will
those
rather
to
die
with
their
fellowes
.
Wherein
GOD
our
Lorde
hath
been
highly
trespassed
agayinst
,
and
the
kinges
Maiestie
euill
serued
,
hauing
beene
defrauded
in
that
,
that
his
highnesse
hath
loste
suche
a
countrey
,
as
hath
been
able
to
yeelde
sustenaunce
to
all
Castile
:
for
the
recouerie
of
which
countrey
,
it
will
be
a
matter
of
great
difficulty
,
dispence
,
and
charges
.
All
these
hitherto
are
the
formall
woordes
of
the
sayde
religious
person
:
the
which
are
also
ratified
by
the
Byshoppe
of
Mexico
,
which
witnesseth
that
the
reuerende
father
hath
to
his
knowledge
affirmed
all
the
aboue
saide
.
It
is
heere
to
bee
considered
,
that
the
good
father
sayeth
,
that
he
sawe
those
thynges
.
For
that
,
that
hee
hath
beene
fiftie
,
or
an
hundred
leagues
vp
into
the
conntrey
,
for
the
space
of
niene
or
tenne
yeeres
,
and
that
at
the
very
beginning
,
when
there
were
not
as
yet
but
very
fewe
of
the
Spaniardes
:
but
at
the
ringing
of
the
golde
,
there
were
quickly
gathered
and
fleeked
thither
foure
or
fiue
thousande
,
which
shedde
themselues
foorth
ouer
many
great
realmes
and
prouinces
,
more
then
fiue
hundred
or
sixe
hundred
leagues
,
the
whiche
countrey
hath
beene
throughly
destroyed
,
they
executing
still
the
selfe
same
practises
,
and
others
more
barbarous
and
cruell
.
Of
a
veritie
from
that
day
vnto
this
presente
,
there
hath
beene
destroyed
and
brought
to
desolation
moe
soules
then
hee
hath
compted
:
and
they
haue
with
lesse
reuerence
of
GOD
or
the
King
,
and
with
lesse
plttie
then
before
,
abolished
a
great
part
of
the
linage
of
mankinde
.
They
haue
slayne
vnto
this
day
in
these
same
realmes
(
and
yet
dayly
they
doe
slay
them
)
moe
then
foure
millions
of
soules
.
Certayne
dayes
passed
,
they
pricked
in
shooting
with
dartes
of
reedes
to
death
a
mightie
Queene
,
wife
of
Eling
,
who
is
yet
King
of
that
Realme
,
whom
the
Spaniardes
by
laying
handes
vpon
him
compelled
to
rebell
,
and
in
rebellion
hee
persisteth
.
They
tooke
the
Queene
his
wife
,
and
so
as
hath
beene
sayde
,
slue
her
against
all
reason
and
iustice
,
beeing
greate
with
childe
as
shee
was
,
as
it
was
said
onely
to
vexe
her
husband
withall
.
If
it
shoulde
bee
expedient
to
recounte
the
particularities
of
the
cruelties
and
slaughters
that
the
Spanishe
haue
committed
,
and
yet
dayly
doe
committe
in
Peru
:
without
all
doubt
they
shoulde
bee
so
frightfull
,
and
in
so
great
number
,
that
all
that
wee
haue
hitherto
saide
of
the
other
partes
of
the
Indies
,
woulde
bee
shadowed
,
and
it
woulde
seeme
a
small
matter
in
the
respecte
of
the
grieuousnesse
and
greate
number
hereof
.
Of
the
newe
realme
of
Grenado
.
WIthin
the
yeere
1539.
there
tooke
their
flight
together
sundry
tyrantes
,
flocking
from
Venesuela
,
from
Saint
Martha
,
and
from
Carthagene
,
to
search
for
the
Perous
:
and
there
were
also
others
which
came
downe
from
Peru
it selfe
to
assay
,
to
make
a
glade
farther
into
the
countrey
:
And
they
found
from
beyond
S.
Marthas
and
Carthagene
,
300.
leagues
vp
into
the
countrey
,
,
fertile
landes
,
and
admirable
prouinces
,
full
of
infinite
people
,
kinde
hearted
like
the
rest
,
and
verye
riche
,
as
well
of
golde
as
of
precious
stones
,
which
they
call
emeraldes
.
Vnto
the
whiche
Prouinces
they
gaue
the
name
of
Newe
Grenado
:
For
because
that
the
tyraunt
whiche
came
first
into
this
countrey
,
was
a
grenado
,
borne
in
our
countrey
.
And
for
because
that
diuers
wicked
men
and
cruell
of
those
whiche
roaued
ouer
this
parte
,
were
not
orious
butchers
,
making
it
as
occupation
to
shedde
mans
blood
,
hauing
the
practise
and
experience
of
the
great
fellonies
aforementioned
in
moste
part
of
the
other
regions
of
the
Indies
:
it
is
the
cause
why
their
diuelishe
woorkes
haue
beene
suche
,
and
in
so
great
number
,
whiche
the
circumstaunces
doe
make
appeare
so
monstrous
and
odious
,
that
they
haue
farre
exceeded
the
others
,
yea
all
the
gests
that
haue
gone
before
,
done
by
others
,
or
by
them selues
in
other
Prouinces
.
I
will
recounte
some
one
or
other
of
an
infinite
whereof
they
are
giultie
,
as
doone
by
them
within
these
three
yeeres
,
and
whiche
yet
they
,
cease
not
to
committe
.
That
is
,
that
a
Gouernour
,
for
as
muche
as
hee
whiche
robbed
and
slewe
in
the
newe
Realme
of
Grenado
,
woulde
not
admitte
him
for
consorte
with
him
to
robbe
and
sley
as
did
hee
:
hee
procured
an
enquirie
,
and
thereby
euidence
came
in
agaynst
him
with
sundrie
witnesses
,
vpon
the
fact
of
his
slaughters
,
disorders
,
and
murders
which
hee
had
done
,
and
doeth
as
yet
vnto
this
day
,
the
processe
of
which
enquirie
,
together
with
the
euidences
was
read
,
and
is
kept
in
the
recordes
of
the
counsell
of
the
Indies
.
The
witnesses
doe
depose
in
the
same
enquirie
,
that
the
saide
whole
realme
was
in
peace
,
the
Indians
seruing
the
Spaniards
,
giuing
them
to
eate
of
their
laboure
,
and
labouring
continually
,
and
manuring
the
grounde
,
and
bringing
them
muche
golde
and
precious
stones
,
suche
as
are
emerauldes
,
and
all
that
which
they
coulde
and
had
:
the
townes
,
and
the
Lordeshippes
,
and
the
people
being
distributed
amongst
the
Spaniardes
euery
one
his
share
:
which
is
all
that
they
studie
for
,
for
that
,
that
it
is
their
meane
way
to
attayne
to
their
last
end
and
scope
,
to
witte
golde
,
And
all
beeing
subdued
to
their
tyrannie
and
accustomed
bondage
,
the
tyrant
the
principall
Captayne
which
commaunded
ouer
that
countrey
,
tooke
the
Lorde
and
King
of
the
countrey
,
and
detayned
him
prisoner
sixe
or
seuen
monethes
,
exacting
of
him
golde
and
emerauldes
without
cause
or
reason
at
all
.
The
sayde
king
,
who
was
named
Bogata
,
for
feare
which
they
put
him
in
,
sayde
that
he
woulde
giue
them
an
house
full
of
gold
:
hoping
that
hee
shoulde
escape
out
of
the
handes
of
him
whiche
tormented
him
.
And
hee
sent
Indians
which
shoulde
bringe
him
golde
,
and
by
times
one
after
an
other
,
they
brought
in
a
great
quantitie
of
golde
and
precious
stones
.
But
bec
ause
the
king
did
not
giue
an
whole
house
full
of
golde
,
the
Spaniardes
did
kill
him
:
sethence
that
hee
did
not
accomplishe
that
which
he
had
promised
.
The
tyraunt
commaunding
that
this
king
shoulde
bee
arraigned
before
him selfe
:
They
sommon
and
accuse
in
this
order
the
greatest
king
of
all
that
countrey
,
and
the
tyraunt
giueth
sentence
,
condemning
him
to
bee
racked
and
tormented
,
if
hee
doe
not
furnishe
forth
the
house
full
of
golde
.
They
giue
him
the
torture
and
the
strapado
with
cordes
:
they
flinge
burnyng
sewe●
vppon
his
naked
belly
:
they
lay
on
boltes
vpon
his
feete
,
which
were
fastened
to
one
stake
,
and
gyrd
his
neck
fast
vnto
another
stake
,
two
men
holding
both
his
handes
,
and
so
they
set
fire
vnto
his
feete
:
and
the
tyrant
,
comming
vp
and
downe
,
nowe
and
then
,
willeth
him
to
haue
his
death
giuen
him
by
little
and
little
,
if
hee
made
not
readie
the
golde
.
Thus
they
dispatched
and
did
to
death
that
noble
Lord
in
those
torments
,
during
the
execution
whereof
,
God
manifested
by
a
signe
,
that
those
cruelties
displeased
him
,
in
consuming
with
fire
all
the
towne
where
they
were
committed
.
All
the
Spaniardes
to
the
ende
to
followe
their
good
Capataine
,
and
hauing
none
other
thing
to
doe
,
but
to
hackle
in
peeces
those
poore
innocents
doe
the
like
,
tormenting
with
diuers
and
sauage
torments
euery
Indian
,
both
Cacike
or
Lorde
of
euery
people
or
peoples
,
with
all
their
flocks
,
that
were
committed
to
their
charges
:
those
said
Lordes
with
all
their
subiects
seruing
them
,
and
giuing
them
golde
and
emerauds
as
many
as
they
coulde
,
and
as
muche
as
they
had
:
Tormenting
them
onely
to
the
ende
they
shoulde
giue
them
more
golde
,
and
rich
myneralles
:
thus
they
broyled
and
dispatched
all
the
Lordes
of
that
Countrie
.
For
the
great
feare
of
the
notorious
cruelties
,
that
one
of
the
petie
tyrants
did
vnto
the
Indians
,
there
transported
himselfe
vnto
the
mountaines
,
in
flying
so
great
crueltie
,
a
great
Lorde
named
Daytama
,
with
many
of
his
people
.
For
this
they
holde
for
their
last
remedie
and
refuge
,
if
it
might
haue
preuailed
them
ought
:
and
this
the
Spaniardes
call
insurrection
and
rebellion
.
Which
the
Captaine
head
tyrant
hauing
knowledge
of
he
sendeth
supplie
of
souldiers
vnto
the
said
cruel
man
:
(
for
whose
cruelties
sake
,
the
Indians
that
were
peaceable
,
and
had
endured
great
tyrannies
and
mischiefes
,
were
nowe
gone
into
the
mountaines
:
)
to
the
ende
hee
should
pursue
them
.
Who
,
because
it
sufficed
not
to
hide
them
in
the
entrals
of
the
earth
,
finding
there
a
great
multitude
of
people
,
slue
and
dispatched
them
,
aboue
500.
soules
,
what
men
,
what
women
,
for
they
receiued
none
to
mercy
.
Also
the
witnesses
depose
,
that
the
said
Lord
Daytamā
,
before
that
the
Spaniards
put
him
to
death
,
came
to
the
cruell
man
,
and
brought
him
foure
or
fiue
thousand
Castillans
,
the
which
notwithstanding
he
was
murdered
as
is
aboue
saide
.
Another
time
manie
Indians
beeing
come
to
serue
the
Spaniardes
,
and
seruing
them
with
such
humilitie
and
simplicitie
,
as
they
are
accustomed
to
doe
,
reputing
themselues
assured
:
behold
,
the
captaine
of
the
towne
where
they
serued
,
who
commeth
by
night
commaunding
that
those
Indians
should
be
put
to
the
edge
of
the
sworde
,
when
they
had
supped
,
and
whiles
that
they
were
a
sleepe
,
taking
their
rest
after
the
toyle
which
they
sustained
the
day
time
.
And
this
hee
did
,
for
that
it
seemed
him
necessary
to
do
this
massacre
,
to
the
end
to
engraue
an
awe
of
himself
in
the
heartes
of
all
the
peoples
of
that
countrie
.
Another
time
the
captaine
commaunded
to
take
an
othe
of
the
Spaniardes
,
to
wit
,
howe
many
euery
one
had
in
his
seruice
of
the
Caciks
,
and
principall
Lords
,
and
Indians
of
the
meaner
sort
:
that
incontinent
they
shoulde
bee
brought
to
the
moste
open
place
of
the
citie
,
where
he
commaunded
that
they
shoulde
be
beheaded
:
thus
were
there
at
that
time
put
to
death
a
foure
or
fiue
hundred
soules
.
Moreouer
these
witnesses
depose
concerning
another
of
the
petty
tyrants
,
that
he
had
exercised
great
cruelties
in
slaying
,
&
chopping
off
the
hands
and
noses
of
many
persons
,
aswell
men
as
women
,
and
destroying
very
much
people
.
Another
time
the
captaine
sent
the
self
same
cruell
man
with
certaine
Spaniardes
into
the
Prouince
of
Bogata
,
to
bee
informed
by
the
inhabitants
what
Lorde
it
was
,
that
was
successour
vnto
the
chiefe
Lorde
,
whom
he
had
made
to
die
the
cruell
death
in
those
torments
spoken
of
before
:
Who
running
along
the
countrie
throughout
sundrie
places
,
tooke
as
many
Indians
as
he
could
come
by
:
And
for
that
he
could
not
learn
of
them
,
what
he
was
that
succeeded
that
Lorde
,
he
mangled
off
some
handes
,
he
bid
cast
others
,
men
and
women
vnto
hungrie
mastiues
,
who
rend
them
in
peeces
.
And
in
this
maner
haue
been
destroyed
very
many
Indies
,
and
Indesses
.
One
time
at
the
fourth
watch
of
the
night
,
he
went
to
ouerrunne
Caciks
or
gouernours
of
the
lande
,
with
many
of
the
Indians
,
which
were
in
peace
,
and
helde
themfelues
assured
(
for
he
had
giuen
them
his
faith
,
&
assurance
that
they
shoulde
receiue
no
harme
nor
damage
)
vpon
credit
wherof
,
they
were
come
foorth
of
their
holes
in
the
mountains
,
where
they
had
been
hid
,
to
people
the
plaine
,
in
the
which
stoode
their
citie
:
thus
being
commen
without
suspition
,
&
trusting
the
assurance
made
,
he
tooke
a
great
number
,
aswell
men
as
women
,
and
commanded
to
holde
out
their
handes
stretched
against
the
ground
,
&
himselfe
with
a
woodknife
cut
of
their
hands
,
telling
them
that
he
did
on
them
this
chastisement
,
for
that
they
woulde
not
confesse
,
where
their
new
Lorde
was
,
which
had
succeeded
in
the
charge
of
gouernement
of
the
Realme
,
Another
time
for
that
the
Indians
gaue
him
not
a
cofer
full
of
golde
,
that
this
cruel
captaine
required
them
:
he
sent
men
to
warre
vpon
them
:
who
cut
off
the
handes
and
noses
of
men
and
women
without
number
.
They
cast
others
before
their
dogs
being
hunger
bitten
,
and
vsed
to
the
feate
of
feeding
on
flesh
,
the
which
dispatched
and
deuoured
them
.
Another
time
the
Indians
of
that
Realme
perceiuing
,
that
the
Spaniards
had
brent
3.
or
4.
of
their
principall
Lordes
,
they
fled
for
feare
vp
into
a
mountaine
,
from
whence
they
might
defende
themselues
against
their
enemies
so
estraunged
from
all
humanitie
.
There
were
of
them
by
the
testimonie
of
the
witnesses
a
foure
or
fiue
thousande
Indians
.
This
aboue
saide
Captaine
sent
a
great
and
notable
tyrant
,
which
exceeded
farre
most
of
those
to
whom
he
had
giuen
the
charge
to
ransacke
and
waste
,
together
with
a
certaine
number
of
Spaniardes
,
to
the
ende
that
they
should
chastise
the
Indian
rebels
:
as
they
would
seeme
to
make
them
for
that
they
were
fled
from
a
pestilence
&
slaughter
so
intollerable
:
and
as
though
it
apperteined
vnto
them
,
to
chastice
and
punish
them
as
malefactors
themselues
in
deede
being
worthie
of
all
torment
without
that
any
body
should
haue
of
them
pitie
or
compassion
,
being
so
deuoid
thereof
,
as
appeareth
by
the
handling
of
those
poore
innocents
of
that
fashion
.
Well
,
so
it
is
that
the
Spanish
by
force
preuailed
to
get
vppe
to
the
mountaine
:
for
the
Indians
were
naked
without
weapons
.
And
the
Spaniardes
cryed
peace
vnto
the
Indians
:
assuring
them
,
that
they
would
do
them
no
harme
:
and
that
they
of
their
partes
shoulde
not
war
any
longer
.
Streight
way
as
the
Indians
stinted
from
their
owne
defense
,
the
vile
cruel
man
sent
to
the
Spaniardes
to
take
the
fortes
of
the
mountaine
,
and
when
they
shoulde
get
them
to
enclose
within
them
the
Indians
.
They
set
then
like
vnto
Tigers
and
Lions
,
vpon
these
lambes
so
meeke
,
and
put
them
to
the
edge
of
the
sworde
,
so
long
that
they
were
faine
to
breath
and
rest
themselues
.
And
after
hauing
rested
a
certaine
season
,
the
captaine
commaunded
that
they
shoulde
kill
and
cast
downe
from
the
mountaine
,
the
which
was
very
highe
,
the
residue
that
were
aliue
:
that
which
was
done
.
And
these
witnesses
say
,
that
they
sawe
as
it
were
a
cloude
of
the
Indians
cast
downe
from
the
mountaine
,
to
the
number
by
estimation
of
seuen
hundreth
men
together
,
where
they
fell
battered
to
peeces
.
And
to
atchieue
all
his
great
crueltie
,
they
searched
al
the
Indians
that
were
hid
amongst
the
bushes
:
and
hee
commaunded
to
cut
of
their
heads
,
at
blockes
ends
:
and
so
they
siue
them
and
cast
them
downe
the
mountaine
:
yet
coulde
not
hee
content
him selfe
with
those
saide
thinges
so
cruell
but
that
hee
would
make
himselfe
a
litle
better
knowne
,
augmenting
his
horrible
sinnes
,
when
as
hee
commaunded
that
all
the
Indians
men
and
women
,
which
some
priuate
persons
had
taken
aliue
(
for
euery
one
in
those
massacres
is
accustomed
to
cull
out
some
one
or
other
mankinde
and
womankind
,
to
the
ende
to
become
his
seruants
)
shoulde
be
put
into
a
strawen
house
,
sauing
and
reseruing
those
,
which
seemed
necessarie
to
bee
employed
in
their
seruice
,
and
that
there
shoulde
be
put
to
fire
:
thus
were
there
burned
fourty
or
fiftie
.
Hee
caused
the
rest
to
bee
flong
to
the
carrion
kinde
dogges
,
which
rende
them
in
peeces
,
and
deuoured
them
.
Another
time
the
selfe
same
tyrant
went
to
a
Citie
called
Cotta
,
and
tooke
there
a
great
number
of
Indians
,
and
caused
to
be
dismembred
by
his
dogs
,
a
fifteene
or
twentie
Lords
of
the
principal
,
and
cut
the
handes
of
a
great
multitude
of
men
&
women
:
which
saide
handes
hee
hanged
one
by
another
on
a
pole
,
to
the
ende
the
other
Indians
might
see
that
,
which
he
had
done
vnto
them
.
There
were
so
hanged
one
by
another
threescore
and
ten
payre
of
hands
.
He
slysed
off
besides
from
many
women
and
children
their
noses
.
No
creature
liuing
and
reasonable
,
is
able
to
decipher
the
mischiefes
and
cruell
dealings
of
this
fellowe
,
enemie
of
God
.
For
they
are
without
number
,
neuer
otherwise
hearde
of
,
nor
seene
:
those
,
I
meane
,
which
he
hath
done
in
the
lande
of
Guatimala
,
and
all
about
where
he
hath
become
,
for
there
are
a
good
many
yeres
passed
,
in
the
which
he
hath
bene
professed
in
the
misterie
,
to
bereaue
that
land
,
&
those
people
.
The
witnesses
say
for
a
surcharge
,
that
the
cruell
dealings
&
slaughters
which
haue
beene
committed
,
and
are
yet
in
the
saide
Realme
of
new
Grenado
,
by
the
captaines
themselues
in
person
and
by
their
consents
giuen
vnto
all
the
other
tyrants
,
wasters
,
and
weeders
of
the
nature
of
man
,
which
were
in
his
company
,
and
the
which
hath
laid
all
the
countrie
wilde
&
waste
,
are
suche
and
so
excessiue
,
that
if
his
maiestie
doe
not
take
some
order
therein
in
some
time
(
albeit
that
the
slaughter
and
discomfiture
of
the
Indians
is
done
only
to
bereaue
them
of
their
gold
,
the
which
they
haue
none
of
,
for
they
haue
surrendred
all
that
which
they
had
)
they
wil
in
a
short
time
make
an
end
of
them
so
in
such
sort
,
that
there
will
bee
no
more
Indians
to
inhabite
the
lande
,
but
that
it
wyll
remaine
in
a
wildernesse
without
beeing
manured
.
Nay
,
wee
must
note
heere
the
cruell
and
pessilent
tyrrannie
of
these
cursed
tyrants
,
howe
raging
and
diuelish
it
hath
beene
,
that
in
the
space
of
two
or
three
yeeres
,
sithence
that
this
realme
hath
bene
first
discouered
(
which
as
they
say
both
those
that
haue
been
there
,
and
those
which
depose
as
witnesses
,
was
the
moste
peopled
of
inhabitantes
,
as
possiblie
might
bee
any
Countrie
in
the
worlde
,
)
they
haue
rased
and
emptied
it
with
slaughters
,
declaring
themseues
so
farre
remooued
from
pittie
,
and
the
reuerent
feare
of
God
and
the
Prince
,
that
the
opinion
is
,
without
the
present
succour
of
his
Maiesty
,
to
stay
these
vnnatural
&
diuelish
tyrannies
,
there
wil
not
remaine
as
muche
as
one
man
aliue
,
&
I
verily
beleue
it
.
For
I
haue
seen
with
mine
own
eyes
that
in
these
parts
,
they
haue
destroyed
and
dispeopled
in
a
small
time
,
great
countries
.
There
are
other
great
Prouinces
,
which
bounde
vpon
the
saide
Realme
,
of
newe
Grenado
,
which
they
call
Popay
an
and
Cali
,
and
three
or
foure
others
,
which
containe
more
then
500.
leagues
of
ground
,
which
they
haue
destroyed
and
desolated
in
the
same
maner
,
as
they
haue
done
others
,
robbing
and
slaying
with
torments
,
and
the
enormities
afore
spoken
of
.
For
the
land
is
very
fertile
,
and
those
that
come
from
thence
now
dayly
,
dot
report
,
that
it
is
a
rufull
thing
to
see
so
manie
goodly
townes
burned
and
sayd
desolate
,
as
they
might
behold
passing
vp
&
downe
that
way
:
so
as
there
,
where
there
was
wont
to
be
in
one
towne
a
thousand
or
two
thousand
householdes
,
they
haue
not
founde
fiftie
,
and
the
rest
vtterly
ransacked
and
dispeopled
.
And
in
some
quarters
they
haue
found
two
or
three
hundred
leagues
of
lande
dispeopled
and
burned
,
&
great
cities
destroyed
.
And
finally
,
by
that
,
that
si
thence
into
the
Realmes
of
Peru
,
of
the
Prouince
side
of
Quito
,
are
entred
farre
into
the
Countrie
sore
and
fel
tyrants
,
as
far
as
to
the
said
Realme
of
Grenado
,
&
of
Popayan
,
&
of
Cali
by
the
coast
of
Carthagene
,
and
Araba
,
&
other
accursed
tyrants
of
Carthagene
haue
gone
to
assault
Quito
,
and
moreouer
,
afterwards
of
the
riuer
side
of
S.
Iohn
,
which
is
on
the
south
side
,
all
the
whiche
haue
met
to
ioyne
handes
together
in
this
exployte
:
they
haue
rooted
out
and
dispeopled
aboue
sixe
hundred
leagues
of
land
,
with
the
losse
of
an
infinitie
of
soules
,
doing
still
the
selfe
same
to
the
poore
wretches
that
remain
behind
,
howsoeuer
innocent
they
appeare
to
be
.
Thus
then
is
the
rule
which
I
set
down
at
the
beginning
,
by
them
verified
:
that
is
,
that
the
tyrannie
,
rage
,
and
vngraciousnesse
of
the
Spanishe
,
hath
alwayes
proceeded
encreasing
in
their
crueltie
,
vnnaturalnesse
,
and
mischiuousnes
amongst
those
so
sweete
lambes
.
That
which
is
continued
at
this
present
day
in
those
Prouinces
,
amongst
other
their
doings
worthy
the
fire
and
torment
,
is
this
which
followeth
.
After
the
ends
of
the
slaughters
and
massacres
of
the
warres
,
they
bring
the
people
into
the
horrible
bondage
aboue
saide
,
and
giue
them
to
the
commaundment
of
Diuels
,
to
one
an
hundred
Indians
,
to
another
three
hundred
.
The
cēmaunder
Diuel
commandeth
,
that
there
come
before
him
an
hundred
Indians
,
which
incontinent
present
themselues
like
lambes
.
He
causing
a
forty
or
fiftie
amongest
them
to
haue
their
heads
cut
off
:
saith
vnto
the
other
there
present
,
I
will
serue
you
of
the
same
sauce
,
if
you
doe
not
mee
good
seruice
,
or
if
so
be
,
that
you
goe
out
of
my
sight
without
my
leaue
.
That
for
the
honour
of
God
,
all
they
that
haue
read
this
peece
of
worke
,
or
shall
giue
it
a
reading
,
consider
nowe
,
whether
this
act
,
so
hideous
,
fell
and
vnnatural
,
doe
not
exceede
all
crueltie
and
iniquitie
,
that
may
bee
imagined
,
and
whether
the
Spaniardes
haue
any
wrong
offered
them
when
a
man
calleth
them
Diuels
,
&
whether
were
better
,
to
giue
the
Indians
to
keep
to
the
diuels
in
hel
,
or
the
Spaniards
which
are
at
the
Indies
.
After
this
I
will
rehearse
another
diuelish
part
,
the
which
I
cannot
tell
whether
it
be
lesse
cruell
&
deuoide
of
manhood
,
then
are
those
of
sauage
beastes
:
that
is
,
that
the
Spanish
which
are
in
the
Indies
,
doe
keepe
certaine
dogges
most
raging
,
taught
and
trayned
wholy
to
the
purpose
,
to
kill
and
rende
in
peeces
the
Indians
.
That
let
all
those
that
are
true
christians
,
yea
,
and
also
those
which
are
not
so
,
behold
,
if
euer
there
were
the
like
thinge
in
the
whole
worlde
:
that
is
,
to
feed
those
dogs
,
they
led
about
with
them
wheresoeuer
they
goe
a
great
number
of
Indians
in
chaines
as
if
they
were
hogs
,
and
kill
them
,
making
a
shambles
of
mans
flesh
.
And
the
one
of
them
will
say
to
another
,
Lend
mee
a
quarter
of
a
villaine
,
to
giue
my
dogs
some
meate
,
vntill
I
kyll
one
nexte
,
altogether
as
if
one
shoulde
borrowe
a
quarter
of
an
hog
or
mutton
.
There
bee
others
which
goe
foorth
a
hunting
in
the
morning
with
their
curres
,
the
which
being
returned
to
eat
,
if
another
aske
him
:
Howe
haue
yee
sped
to
day
,
they
aunswere
,
very
well
:
for
I
haue
killed
with
my
dogs
to
day
,
fifteene
or
twentie
viliacoes
.
All
these
Diabolicall
doings
,
with
others
like
haue
beene
proued
in
the
sutes
of
law
,
that
the
tyrants
haue
had
one
of
them
against
another
.
Is
there
any
case
more
ouglie
or
vnnaturall
?
I
will
here
now
deport
me
of
this
discourse
,
vntill
such
time
,
that
there
come
other
newes
of
things
,
in
vngraciousnes
more
notorious
and
remarkable
(
if
it
so
be
,
that
there
can
be
any
more
greeuous
)
or
vntill
such
time
as
wee
may
returne
thither
to
beholde
them
our selues
anewe
,
as
wee
behold
them
for
the
space
of
42.
yeeres
continually
with
mine
owne
eyes
:
Protesting
in
a
good
conscience
before
God
,
that
I
doe
beleeue
,
and
I
holde
it
for
certaine
,
that
the
damages
and
losses
are
so
great
,
with
the
distructions
and
ouerthrowes
of
Cities
,
massacres
and
murders
,
with
the
cruelties
,
horrible
and
ougly
,
with
the
rauins
,
iniquities
and
robberies
,
all
the
which
things
haue
beene
executed
amongest
those
people
,
and
are
yet
dayly
committed
in
those
quarters
:
that
in
all
the
things
,
which
I
haue
spoken
and
deciphered
,
as
I
was
able
the
neerest
to
the
truth
:
I
haue
not
saide
one
of
a
thousande
,
of
that
which
hath
beene
done
,
and
is
dayly
a
doyng
at
this
present
,
be
it
that
you
consider
the
qualitie
,
or
bee
it
,
that
ye
consider
the
quantitie
.
And
to
the
end
that
all
Christians
haue
the
greater
compassion
of
those
poore
innocents
,
and
that
they
complaine
with
mee
the
more
their
perdition
and
destruction
,
and
that
they
detest
the
greedinesse
,
loftinesse
,
and
felnesse
of
the
Spanish
:
that
all
doe
holde
it
for
a
most
vndoubted
veritie
,
with
all
that
hath
beene
aboue
saide
,
that
sithence
the
first
discouery
of
the
Indies
vntyll
nowe
,
the
Indians
neuer
did
harme
vnto
the
Spanishe
in
any
place
wheresoeuer
,
vntill
suche
time
,
that
they
firste
receiued
wrongs
and
iniuries
,
being
robbed
and
betrayed
:
but
indeede
did
repute
them
to
be
immortall
,
supposing
them
to
bee
descended
from
heauen
,
and
they
receiued
them
for
suche
,
vntill
suche
time
as
that
they
gaue
it
forth
manifestly
to
be
knowen
by
their
doings
,
what
they
were
,
and
whereto
they
tended
.
I
will
adioyne
heerevnto
this
,
that
from
the
beginning
vnto
this
houre
,
the
Spaniardes
haue
had
no
more
care
to
procure
that
vnto
those
people
shoulde
bee
preached
the
faith
of
Iesus
Christe
,
then
as
if
they
had
been
curre
dogs
,
or
other
beastes
:
but
in
lien
thereof
,
which
is
much
worse
,
they
haue
forbidden
by
expresse
meanes
the
religious
men
to
doe
it
,
for
because
that
that
seemed
vnto
them
an
hinderance
likely
to
bee
,
to
the
getting
of
their
golde
,
and
these
riches
which
their
auarice
foreglutted
in
.
And
at
this
day
there
is
no
more
knowledge
of
God
throughout
the
Indies
,
to
wit
,
whether
hee
bee
of
tymber
,
of
the
ayre
,
or
the
earth
,
then
there
was
an
hundred
yeeres
agoe
,
excepting
●ewe
Spaine
,
whether
the
religious
men
haue
gone
,
which
is
but
a
litle
corner
of
the
Indies
:
and
so
are
they
perished
,
and
doe
perishe
all
without
faith
,
and
without
sacraments
.
I
brother
Bartholomewe
delas
Casas
or
Casaus
,
religious
of
the
order
of
S.
Dominicke
,
which
by
the
mercie
of
God
am
come
into
this
courte
of
Spayne
,
to
sewe
that
the
hell
might
hee
withdrawen
from
the
Indes
,
and
that
these
innumerable
soules
,
redeemed
by
the
blood
of
Iesus
Christ
,
shoulde
not
perishe
for
euermore
without
remedie
,
but
that
they
might
knowe
their
creator
and
bee
saued
:
also
for
the
care
and
compassion
that
I
haue
of
my
countrey
,
which
is
Castile
,
to
the
ende
that
God
destroy
it
not
for
the
great
sinnes
thereof
,
committed
against
the
fayth
and
his
honour
,
and
against
our
neighbours
:
for
certaine
mens
sakes
notablie
zealous
of
the
glory
of
God
,
touched
with
compassion
of
the
afflictions
and
calamities
of
others
,
followers
of
this
court
:
howebeit
,
that
I
was
purposed
to
do
it
,
but
I
could
not
so
soone
haue
done
it
,
because
of
my
continuall
occupations
,
I
atchieued
this
treatise
and
summarie
at
Valencia
,
the
8.
of
December
,
1542.
the
force
beeing
mounted
to
the
highest
type
of
extremitie
,
and
all
the
violences
,
tyrannies
,
desolations
,
anguishes
,
and
calamities
aboue
sayde
,
spread
ouer
all
the
Indies
,
where
ther
are
any
Spaniardes
,
although
they
bee
more
cruell
in
one
part
then
they
bee
in
an
other
,
and
more
sauage
,
and
more
abhominable
.
Mexico
and
her
confines
are
lesse
euill
intreated
.
In
truth
,
there
they
can
not
execute
their
outrages
openly
,
for
that
there
and
not
elsewhere
,
there
is
some
forme
of
iustice
,
as
slender
as
it
is
.
For
because
that
there
also
they
kill
them
with
diuelishe
tributes
:
I
am
in
good
hope
,
that
the
Emperour
and
King
of
I
payne
,
our
liege
Soueraigne
Lorde
,
don
Charles
the
fifte
of
that
name
,
who
beginneth
to
haue
vnderstanding
of
the
mischieues
and
treasons
that
there
haue
been
,
and
are
committed
against
those
poore
people
,
against
the
will
of
God
,
and
his
owne
,
(
for
they
haue
alwayes
cunningly
concealed
the
trueth
from
him
)
will
roote
out
those
euilles
,
and
take
some
order
for
this
newe
worlde
that
God
hath
giuen
him
,
as
vnto
one
that
leueth
and
doeth
iustice
:
whose
honour
and
prosperous
estate
Imperiall
,
God
almightie
vouchsafe
to
blesse
with
long
life
,
for
the
benefite
of
his
whole
vniuersall
Church
,
and
to
the
saluauen
of
his
owne
royall
soule
.
Amen
.
After
hauing
couched
in
writing
the
premisses
,
I
vnderstood
of
certayne
lawes
and
ordinaunces
,
whiche
his
Maiestie
hath
made
about
this
time
at
Barcellone
,
Anno.
1542.
in
the
moneth
of
Nouember
,
and
the
yeere
following
at
Madrill
:
by
the
which
ordinaunces
,
there
is
order
set
downe
,
as
the
case
them
seemeth
to
require
:
to
the
end
,
to
cut
off
the
mischeieues
and
sinnes
whiche
are
committed
against
God
and
our
neighbours
,
tending
to
the
vtter
ruine
&
perdition
of
this
new
world
.
His
Maiestie
hath
made
these
lawes
,
after
hauing
holden
many
assemblies
of
persons
of
authoritie
,
of
learning
and
conscience
,
and
after
hauing
had
disputations
and
conferences
in
Valladolyd
:
and
finally
with
the
assent
and
aduise
of
al
those
others
which
haue
giuen
their
aduise
in
writing
,
and
haue
been
founde
neerest
approching
vnto
the
law
of
Iesus
Christ
,
and
withall
free
from
the
corruption
and
foyle
of
the
treasures
robbed
from
the
Indians
:
the
which
treasures
haue
soyled
the
handes
and
much
more
the
soules
of
many
,
ouer
whom
those
treasures
and
auarice
haue
got
the
maisterie
,
and
where
hence
hath
proceeded
the
blinding
,
which
hath
caused
so
to
marre
all
without
remorse
.
These
lawes
being
published
,
the
creatures
of
those
tyrantes
,
who
then
were
at
the
court
,
drew
out
sundrie
copyes
thereof
(
for
it
grieued
them
at
the
hearts
:
for
that
it
seemed
them
that
thereby
there
was
a
doore
shut
vp
vnto
them
agaynst
their
rauine
and
extortion
afore
rehearsed
)
and
dispersed
them
into
diuers
quarters
of
the
Indies
.
Those
which
had
the
charge
to
robbe
,
roote
out
,
and
consume
by
their
tyrannies
,
(
euen
as
they
had
neuer
kept
any
good
order
but
rather
disorder
,
such
as
Lusifer
himselfe
might
haue
helde
)
as
they
read
those
copies
before
the
new
iudges
might
come
to
execute
their
charge
,
knowing
it
(
as
it
is
sayd
,
and
that
very
exediblie
)
by
those
who
vntill
this
time
haue
supported
and
mayntayned
their
crimes
and
outrages
,
to
be
likely
that
such
execution
shoulde
bee
vsed
of
those
laws
:
they
ran
into
a
mutinie
in
such
wise
,
as
that
when
the
good
Iudges
were
come
to
doe
their
duties
,
they
aduised
with
them selues
(
as
those
which
had
lost
the
feare
and
loue
of
God
)
to
cast
off
also
all
shame
,
and
obedience
which
they
owe
to
the
king
,
and
so
tooke
vnto
them
the
name
of
open
and
arrant
traytours
,
behauing
them selues
as
most
cruell
and
gracelesse
tyrantes
:
and
principally
in
the
realme
of
Peru
,
where
presently
this
yeere
1442.
are
committed
actes
so
horrible
and
frightfull
,
as
neuer
were
the
like
,
neither
in
the
Indies
,
nor
in
all
the
worlde
besides
,
not
onely
agaynst
the
Indians
,
the
which
all
or
in
a
maner
all
are
slayne
,
all
those
regions
being
dispeopled
:
but
also
betwixt
themselues
by
a
iust
iudgement
of
God
,
who
hath
permitted
that
they
shoulde
bee
the
butchers
one
of
an
other
of
them
.
By
meanes
of
the
support
of
this
rebellion
,
none
of
all
the
other
partes
of
this
newe
worlde
would
obey
those
lawes
:
But
vnder
colour
of
making
supplication
to
his
Maiestie
to
the
contrary
,
they
haue
made
an
insurrection
aswell
as
the
others
.
For
that
it
irketh
them
to
leaue
their
estates
and
goodes
whiche
they
haue
vsurped
,
and
to
vnbinde
the
handes
of
the
Indians
,
whome
they
detayne
in
a
perpetuall
captiuitie
.
And
there
where
they
cease
to
kill
with
the
swoorde
,
redily
and
at
the
instant
,
they
kill
them
a
little
and
a
little
,
by
personall
slaueries
,
and
vniust
charges
and
intollerable
.
That
which
the
king
could
not
hither
vnto
let
:
for
because
that
they
all
,
great
and
litle
,
roue
and
robbe
,
some
more
,
some
less●
▪
●ome
ouertly
,
and
some
couertly
,
and
vnder
the
pretence
of
seruing
the
king
:
dishonour
God
,
and
rob
the
king
.