; they tortured him again, and as he gave no more gold, either
because he had none or did not wish to give it, they kept him thus,
till the marrow oozed out from the soles of his feet; and thus he
died. Numberless times they killed and tortured lords in this way
to get gold from them.
11. Another time a company of Spaniards, while going to assassinate,
came to a mountain where a great number of people were sheltered and
in hiding, to escape from the pestilential and horrible operations
of the Christians; assaulting it unexpectedly they captured seventy
or eighty young girls and women; and left many dead whom they had
killed.
12. The next day many Indians assembled and pursued the Christians,
driven by their anxiety for their wives and daughters to fight; and
the Christians finding themselves at close quarters, and not wishing
to disorder their company of horse, drove their swords into the
bodies of the young girls and women, and of all the eighty they left
not even one alive. The Indians writhing with grief cried out, and
said: "O wretched men, cruel Christians, you kill Iras!" (the women
in that country are called Iras). They meant that to kill women is
a sign of abominable, cruel and bestial men.
13. Ten or fifteen leagues from Panama there was a great lord called
Paris, who had great wealth of gold. The Christians went thither
and he received them as though they were his brothers: he willingly
presented the captain with fifty thousand castellanos. It seemed to
the captain and to the Christians that one who spontaneously gave
that quantity, must have a great treasure; which was the aim and
recompense of their effort. They dissimulated, saying they wished
to depart: towards sunrise they returned and attacked the
unsuspecting town; and they set fire to it and burnt it. They
killed and burnt many people, and stole other fifty or sixty
thousand castellanos, and the prince, or lord fled to escape death
or capture.
14. He quickly assembled all the people he could, and in two or three
days came upon the Christians, who were carrying away his hundred
and thirty or forty (86) thousand castellanos, and fell upon them
manfully, killing fifty Christians, recapturing all the gold while
the others escaped badly wounded.
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