-Beast, a Mule, or Camel. Well, He
was made Governour of the City of _Mexico_, and all _New Spain_, and
with him many other Tyrants had the Office of Auditors confer'd upon
them: Now they had already made such a progress toward the Desolation
of this Region, that if the _Franciscans_ had not vigorously opposed
them, and that by (the King's Council, the best and greatest Encourager
of Vertue) it had not speedily bin prevented, that which hapned to
_Hispaniola_ in Two Years, had bin the Fate of _Hispania nova_, namely
to be unpeopled, deferred, and intomb'd in its own Rules. A Companion
of this Governour employed Eight Thousand _Indians_ in Erecting a wall
to inclose his Garden, but they all dyed, having no Supplies, nor Wages
from him, to support themselves, at whose Death he was not in the least
concern'd.

After the first Captain before spoken of had absolutely profliaged and
ruin'd the _Panuconians_, Fifteen Thousand whereof perished by carrying
their Bag and Baggage: At length he arriv'd at the Province of
_Machuacan_, which is Forty Miles Journey from _Mexico_, and as Fertile
and Populous: The King to honour him in the Rencounter, with a Multiple
of People, marcheth toward him, from whom he had received One Thousand
Services and Civilities very considerable, who gratefully requited him
with Captivity, because Fame had nois'd it abroad, that he was a most
Opulent Prince in Gold and Silver; and to the end he might export from,
and purge him of his Gold, he was cruciated with Torments after this
manner; his Body was extended, Hands bound to a Post, and his Feet put
into a pair of Stocks, they all the while applying burning Coals to his
Feet at a tormenting distance, where a Boy attended, who by little and
little sprinkled them with Oyl, that his Flesh might roast the better:
Before him there stood a Wicked Fellow, presenting a Bow to his Breast
charged with a Mortal Arrow, (if let fly) behind him, another with Dogs
held in with Chains, which he threatned to let loose at him, which if
done, he had bin torn to pieces in a moment; and with these kind of
Torments they racked him to extort a Confession, where his Treasures
lay; till a _Franciscan_ Monk came and deliver'd him from his Torments,
but not from Death, for he departed this miserable Life not long after:
And this was the severe Fate of many _Cacics_ and _Indian_ Lords, who
dyed with the same Torments which they were expos'd to by the
_Spaniards_, in order to th