rd_, the whole City was suddenly up in Arms fell on the
_Spaniards_ and wounded many of them, the rest hardly escaping; but
they presenting the point of a Sword to the Kings Breast, threatned him
with death unless he out of the Window commanded them to desist; but
the _Indians_ for the present disobeying the Kings Mandate, proceeded
to the Election of a Generalissimo, or Commander in Chief over all
their Forces; and because that the Captain, who went to the Port
returned Victor, and brought away a far greater number of _Spaniards_
then he took along with him, there was a Cessation of Arms for three or
four days, till he re-entred the City, and then the _Indians_ having
gatherered together and made up a great Army, fought so long and so
strenuously, that the _Spaniards_ despairing of their safety, called a
Council of War and therein resolv'd to retreat in the dead time of
night and so draw off their Forces from the City: which coming to the
knowledge of the _Indians_ they destroyed a great number Retreating on
the Bridges made over their Lakes in this just and Holy War, for the
causes above-mentioned, deserving the approbation of every upright
Judge. But afterward the _Spaniards_ having recruited and got together
in a Body, they resolved to take the City and carried it at last,
wherein most detestable Butcheries were acted, a vast number of the
people slain, and their Rulers perished in the Flames.

All these horrid Muders being commited in _Mexico_ and other Cities
ten, fifteen and twenty miles distant. This same Tyranny and Plague in
the abstract proceeded to infest and lay desolate _Panuco_; a Region
abounding with Inhabitants even to admiration, nor were the slaughters
therein perpetrated less stupendous and wonderful. In the same manner
they utterly laid wasate the Provinces of _Futepeca, Ipilcingonium_ and
_Columa_, every one of them being as large as the Kingdoms of _Leon_,
and _Castile_. It would be very difficult or rather impossible to
relate the Cruelties and Destruction there made and committed, and
prove very nauseous and offensive to the Reader.

'Tis observable, that they entred upon these Dominions and laid waste
the _Indian_ Territories, so populous, that it would have rejoyced the
hearts of all true Christians to see their number upon no other title
or pretense, but only to enslave them; for at their first arrival they
compel'd them to swear the Oath of Obedience and Fealty to the King of
_Spain_,