nd her. The others, being weak and infirm, were not tortured
so long, because the tyrant did not intend to kill them, but only to
conquer them; and for this reason they had, during the whole time,
a physician upon the mountain to cure their hurts.

"Finally the governor saw that he could by no means conquer them; but,
on the contrary, his men informed him that, judging by the courage
and valor which they showed, they would suffer till all the pools and
wells in Unjen were drained, rather than give in. He therefore lost
all hope of a victory over them, and decided to order that they be
taken to Nangasaqui, although he would not do so before his departure
for the court at Meaco; for he thought that it would diminish his
prestige to have them enter as victors into that city while he was
there. After his departure, therefore, he sent on the way advice to
his deputy whom he left there, to bring them to Nangasaqui. This he
accordingly did on the fifth of January, placing Beatriz de Acosta in a
certain house, and putting the five religious into the public prison,
where they still remain. Such was the victorious end of this battle,
wherein our holy faith was nobly vindicated, the Christians encouraged,
and the tyrant overcome and confounded, quite the contrary of what
he had expected and promised.

"During the same time this governor seized and sent to Sendo [95]
the wives and daughters of the holy martyrs who have perished in
Nangasaqui from the year 1617 to the present one, one thousand
six hundred and thirty-two--separating many of them, who were
already married, from their husbands and sons. They all accepted
captivity for so holy a cause with a good will, and before leaving
protested before the governor that they were and always would be
Christians. Three Christians were taken prisoners for the faith in
Fingo at the beginning of the year 631. One of them died most happily
in the prison, a short time ago; and the other two, father and son,
remain in captivity. In Xiqui there were thrown alive into the sea
for the faith, on the twelfth of February past, Thome and Ynes, his
wife; likewise in Firando, a short time ago, another man was thrown
into the sea for the same cause.

"In Oxu [96] a man became a Christian fraudulently; and, after learning
about the principal Christians of Vacamatzu and Ayzu from one of our
household of Ojaca, called Paulo, he went and gave a list thereof to
the governors of Tenca. These immediately a