e engrossing of their Gold and Sliver to
themselves.

At this very time, A certain Visiter of Purses rather than Souls hapned
to be here present, who (finding some _Indian_ Idols which were hid;
for they were no better instructed in the Knowledge of the true God by
reason of the Wicked Documents and Dealings of the _Spaniards_)
detain'd Grandees as Slaves, till they had deliver'd him all their
Idols, for he phancied they were made of Gold or Silver, but his
Expectation being frustrated, he chastised them with no less Cruelty
than Injustice; and that he might not depart bubbled out of all his
hopes, constrain'd them to redeem their Idols with Money, that so they
might, according to their Custom, Adore them. These are the Fruits of
the _Spanish_ Artifices and Juggling Tricks among the _Indians_, and
thus they promoted the honour and worship of God.

This Tyrant from _Mechuacam_ arrives at _Xalisco_, a Country abounding
with People very fruitful, and the Glory of the _Indians_ in this
respect, that it had some Towns Seven Miles long; and among other
Barbarisms equal to what you have read, which they acted here, this is
not to be forgotten, that Women big with Child, were burthen'd with the
Luggage of Wicked Christians, and being unable to go out their usual
time, through extremity of Toil and Hunger, were necessitated to bring
them forth in the High-wayes, which was the Death of many Infants.

At a certain time a profligate Christian attempted to devirginate a
Maid, but the Mother being present, resisted him, and endeavouring to
free her from his intended Rape, whereat the _Spaniard_ enrag'd, cut
off her Hand with a short Sword, and stab'd the Virgin in several
places, till she Expir'd, because she obstinately opposed and
disappointed his inordinate Appetite.

In this Kingdom of _Xalisco_ (according to report) they burnt Eight
Hundred Towns to Ashes, and for this Reason the _Indians_ growing
desperate, beholding the dayly destruction of the Remainders of their
matchless Cruelty, made an Insurrection against the _Spaniards_, slew
several of them justly and deservedly, and afterward fled to the
insensible Rocks and Mountains (yet more tender and kind than the
stony-hearted Enemy) for Sanctuary; where they were miserably Massacred
by those Tyrants who succeeded, and there are now few, or none of the
Inhabitants to be found. Thus the _Spaniards_ being blinded with the
Lustre of their Gold, deserted by God, and given over