cted, and 'tis
probable would have suffered Death, rather than permit the _Indians_ to
be so injuriously dealt with, which might prove an Obstruction to their
receiving of, and believing in God's Word. Yet the _Indians_ were
sedated by the promises of the Religious; for they told them, they
would send Letters by the first Ship that was bound for _Hispaniola_,
whereby they would procure the Restitution and Return of their Lord and
his Retinue. It pleased God to send a Ship thither forthwith, to the
greater confirming of the Governours Damnation, where in the Letters
they sent to the Religious of _Hispaniola_, Letters containing repeated
Exclamations and Protestations, and protest against such Actions, but
those that received them denyed them Justice, for that they were
partakers of that Prey, made of those _Indians_ so injustly and
impiously captivated. But when the Religious, who had engag'd to the
Inhabitants, that their Lord _Alphonsus_ should be restor'd within Four
Moneths, and found that neither in Four, nor Eight Moneths he was
return'd, they prepar'd themselves for Death, and to deliver up their
Life to Christ, to whom they had offer'd it before their departure from
_Spain_: Thus the Innocent _Indians_ were revenged on the Innocent
Priests; for they were of Opinion, that the Religious had a hand in the
Plot, partly, because they found their Promises that their Lord should
return within Four Moneths, ineffectual, and partly because the
Inhabitants made no difference between a Religious Frier and a
_Spanish_ Rogue. At another time it fell out likewise, through the
Rampant Tyrrany and Cruel Deeds of evil-minded Christians, that the
_Indians_ put to Death two _Dominican_ Friers, of which I am a faithful
Witness, escaping my self, not without a very great Miracle, which
Transaction I resolve silently to pass over, lest I should terrifie the
Reader with the Horror of the Fact.

In these Provinces, there was a City seated on the Bay of _Codera_,
whose Lord was call'd _Higueroto_, a Name, either proper to Persons or
common to the Rulers of that Place. A _Cacic_ of such signal Clemency,
and his Subjects of such noted Vertue, that the _Spaniards_ who came
thither, were extraordinarily welcom, furnished with Provisions,
enjoying Peace and Comfort, and no Refreshment wanting: But a
perfidious Wretch got many of them on board, and sold them to the
Islanders of St. _John_. At the same time I landed upon that Island,
whe