try; come at once to render him obedience
etc. otherwise know that we shall make war on you, kill you, and put
you into slavery etc. And towards sunrise, the innocent natives
being still asleep with their wives and children, they attacked the
town, setting fire to the houses that were usually of straw, burning
the children, the women and many others alive, before they awoke.
They killed whom they would, and those whom they took alive, they
afterwards killed with tortures, to force them to indicate other
towns where there was gold, or more than was to be found there; and
the others that survived, they put into chains as slaves. Then when
the fire was extinguished or low they went to look for the gold that
was in the houses.
7. In this way and with such operations, were this wretched man and all
the bad Christians he took with him occupied during the year 1514,
till the year 1521 or 1522, sending on these raids six or more
servants, who collected for him a certain portion of all the gold
and pearls and jewels the Spaniards stole, and of the slaves they
captured, besides the share that belonged to him as Captain General.
The officers of the king did the same, each sending as many boys or
servants as he could. And also the first bishop of that kingdom
sent his servants to obtain part of this profit.
9. As far as I can judge they stole, during that time in the said
kingdom, more gold than a million crowns; and I believe I understate
it; and it will not be found that, of all they stole, they sent the
King more than three thousand crowns. And they destroyed more than
eight hundred thousand souls. The other tyrant governors who
succeeded them till the year 1533 killed, and allowed to be killed
the survivors with the tyrannical servitude that followed the war.
10. Among the other numberless knaveries he committed and permitted
during the time he governed, was this one; a prince, or lord, having
of his own will, or more likely out of fear, given him nine thousand
crowns, he was not satisfied with this sum so he took the said lord,
bound him seated to a stake, with his feet distended and exposed to
fire, to force him to give them a larger quantity of gold; and he
[the chief] sent to his house and brought other three thousand
crowns