isfaction, they were therefore tormented with the greater
Vexations and Persecutions, and forced to bear the _Spanish_ Tyranny
and Servitude, which as much Patience as they were Masters of: Add
farther that they were peaceable and meek spirited. This Tyrant with
these Complices of his Cruelty did afflict this Nation (whose advice he
made use of in destroying the other Kingdoms) with such and so many
great Dammages, Slaughters, Injustice, Slaver, and Barbarisme, that a
Tongue, though of Iron, could not express them all fully. He sent into
the Province (which is larger than the County of _Ruscinia_) Fifty
Horse-Men, who put all the People to the Edge of the Sword, sparing
neither Age nor Sex upon the most trivial and inconsiderable occasion:
As for Example, if they did not come to them with all possible speed,
when called; and bring the imposed burthen of _Mahid_ (which signifies
Corn in their Dialect) or if they did not bring the Number of _Indians_
required to his own, and the Service or rather Servitude of his
Associates. And the Country being all Campaign or Level, no Person was
able to withstand the Hellish Fury of their Horses.

He commanded the _Spaniards_ to make Excursions, that is, to rob other
Provinces, permitting and granting these Theiving Rogues leave to take
away by force as many of these peacable People as they could, who being
iron'd (that they might not sink under the Burthen of Sixty or Eighty
Pound weight) it frequently hapned, that of Four Thousand _Indians_,
Six only returned home, and so they dyed by the way; but if any of them
chanced to faint, being tired with over-weighty Burthens, or through
great Hunger and Thirst should be siezed with a Distemper; or too much
Debility and Weakness, that they might not spend time in taking off
their Fetters, they beheaded them, so the Head fell one way, and the
Body another: The _Indians_ when they spied the _Spaniards_ making
preparations for such Journeys, knowing very well, that few, or none
returned home alive, just upon their setting out with Sighs and Tears,
burst out into these or the like Expressions.

Those were Journeys, which we travelled frequently in the service of
Christians, and in some tract of time we return'd to our Habitations,
Wives and Children: But now there being no hope of a return, we are for
ever depriv'd of their Sight and Conversation.

It hapned also, that the same President would dissipate or disperse the
_Indians de novo