me Account, and with the same pretences,
and beginning at the same Rate as others did; he indeed being one of
those who were exercised, and highly concern'd in the Slaughters and
Cruelties committed on the Continent ever since the Year 1510, he
increased and heightned the Cruelties, Butcheries, and Rapine;
destroying and laying waste (being a False-hearted Faithless Person)
the Towns and Villages, and Murdering the Inhabitants, which occasion'd
all those Evils, that succeeded in those Regions afterward: Now to
undertake the Writing of a Narrative of them, and represent them lively
and Naturally to the Readers view, and perusal, is a work altogether
impossible, but must lie concealed and unknown until they shall more
openly and clearly appear, and be made visible to every Eye, at the day
of Judgement. As for my part, if I should presume to unravel, in some,
measure the Deformity, Quality and Circumstances of those Enormities, I
must ingenuously confess I could by no means perform so burthensom a
Task, and render it compleat and as it ought to be.

At his first admission into these parts, he had laid waste some Towers,
and rob'd them of a great quantity of Gold, this he did in the Infancy
of his Tyrannical Attempts, when he arriv'd at _Pugna_ a Neighbouring
Isle so called, he had the Reception of an Angel; but about Six Months
after, when the _Spaniards_ had spent all their Provisions, they
discover'd and opened the _Indians_ Stores and Granaries, which were
laid up for the sustenance of themselves, Wives and Children against a
time of Dearth and Scarcity, brought them forth with Tears and
Weepings, to dispose of at pleasure: But they rewarded them with
Slaughter, Slavery and Depopulation as formerly.

Thence they betook themselves to the Isle _Tumbala_, scituate on the
firm Land, where they put to Death all they met with. And because the
People terrified with their abominable Sins of Commission, fled from
their Cruelty, they were accused of Rebellion against the _Spanish_
King. This Tyrant made use of this Artifice, he commanded all that he
took, or that had bestowed Gold, Silver and other rich Gifts on him,
still to load him with other Presents, till he found they had exhausted
their Treasures, and were grown naked and incapable of affording him
farther supplies, and then he declared them to be the Vassals and
Subjects of the King of _Spain_, flattering them, and proclaiming twice
by sound of Trumpet, that for the f