assign it men,
the misfortune came about by which, as he confesses in his petition,
two hundred persons escaped; whereas it is known that the dead of the
Spaniards alone amounted to more than a hundred and twenty, so that,
according to this, he took five or six men with him for every enemy.

He has drawn up a number of informations which, considering the dignity
and power of his office, may obscure this truth and give some color to
his case, as he is confident that it has done--and as he has likewise
done in other matters, as he has used such bold and excessive measures
ever since his arrival in this country. In this manner he has reached
such a point that he petitioned for justice because he, as commander,
had to divide the prize which he took in the enemy's captured ship,
and maintained that a great part of it belonged to him. Afterward,
by another petition he says that, as a vassal and servant of your
Majesty, he relinquishes the part which falls to him and gives it
to your Majesty, so that a share of what was taken may be given to
him. A copy of these petitions is being sent, which makes this evident.

There is also sent a copy of the commission as commander which the
said Doctor Morga bore, and an edict which he drew up and enacted, by
which the governor ordered him to go as commander. We do not undertake
to explain to your Majesty any of the matter therein contained,
since in these papers may be plainly seen what audacity he shows in
trying to make it understood that he is a warrior, and that at other
times, by your Majesty's order, he has had similar matters in charge;
and from those very papers may be learned his conduct in many other
matters in this country, against many people, without his taking into
consideration in the least what was owing to them.

The majority of the people through all this city have been hurt and
injured, from the time when he came to this country, by the procedures
of the said Doctor Morga, both in his actions and words against
them, and in letters which he has written treacherously regarding
the circumstances of various people, signing false names to them,
and disguising his handwriting. Afterward he showed copies of these
to other persons, in order to give the impression that he was not
the author of them. At present, since this affair, the ill-feeling
has grown with all these people, and become much greater, because
most of the soldiers whom he took (serving at their own expense)