ring the Cities and
Murdering all the Inhabitants, violently deprived them of all their
goods, which he did designedly, for the space of an hundred and twenty
miles; to the end that if his Companions should follow them, they might
find the Country laid wast, and so be destroyed by the _Indians_ in
revenge for the dammage they had received by him and his Forces which
hapned accordingly: for the Chief Commander whose order the abovesaid
Captain had disobey'd and so became a Rebel to him, was there slain.
But many other bloody Tyrants succeeded him, who from the year 1524 to
1535. did unpeople and make a Desert of the Provinces of _Naco_ and
_Hondura_ (as well as other places) which were lookt upon as the
Paradise of delights, and better peopled then other Regions; insomuch
that within the Term of these eleven years there fell in those
Countries above two Millions of Men, and now there are hardly remaining
Two Thousand, who dayly dye by the severity of their Slavery.

But to return to that great Tyrant, who outdid the former in cruelty
(as hinted above) and is equal to those that Tyrannize there at
present, who travelled to _Guatimala_; he from the Provinces adjoyning
to _Mexico_, which according to his prosecuted journey (as he himself
Writes and testifies with his own hand in Letters to the Prince of
Tyrants) are distant from _Guatimala_ four hundred miles, did make it
to his urgent and dayly business to procure Ruin and Destruction by
slaughter, Fire and Depopulations, compelling all to submit to the
Spanish King, whom they lookt upon to be more unjust and cruel then his
inhumane and bloodthirsty Ministers.

_Of the Kingdom and Province of_ GUATIMALA.

This Tyrant at his first entrance here acted and commanded prodigious
Slaughters to be perpetrated: Notwithstanding which, the Chief Lord in
his Chair or Sedan attended by many Nobles of the City of _Ultlatana_,
the Emporium of the whole Kingdom, together with Trumpets, Drums and
great Exultation, went out to meet him, and brought with them all sorts
of Food in great abundance, with such things as he stood in most need
of. That Night the _Spaniards_ spent without the City, for they did
not judge themselves secure in such a well-fortified place. The next
day he commanded the said Lord with many of his Peers to come before
him, from whom they imperiously challenged a certain quantity of Gold;
to whom the _Indians_ return'd this modest Answer, that they could not
sati