uch more cruel and ferocious and more
destitute of compassion and mercy than himself, to the vast, most
flourishing, most happy and densely populated kingdoms, namely to
that of Guatemala, on the South Sea; and to that of Naco and
Honduras or Guaymura, on the North Sea. They lie opposite one
another, bordering, but separate, and each three hundred leagues
distant from Mexico. He sent one expedition by land and the other
with ships by sea, each provided with many horsemen and
foot-soldiers.
28. I state the truth: Out of the evil done by both, and especially by
him who went to the kingdom of Guatemala,--because the other soon
died a bad death--I could collect and recount so much wickedness, so
many massacres, so many deaths, so much extermination, so much and
such frightful injustice, that they would strike terror to present
and future ages: and I could fill a big book with them, for this man
surpassed all the past and the present in the kind and multitude of
abominations he committed; in the people he destroyed and in the
countries he devastated, for they were infinite.
29. The one who commanded the expedition by sea, committed great
robberies and scandal; destroying many people in the towns along the
coast. Some natives came out to receive him with presents in the
kingdom of Yucatan, which is on the road to the above mentioned
kingdom of Naco and Guaymura, where he was going; when he arrived
there, he sent captains and many people throughout that country, who
robbed, killed and destroyed everything and everybody they found.
30. One especially of these captains who had mutinied with three hundred
men, and had entered the country towards Guatemala, advanced
destroying and burning every place he found, robbing and killing the
people; he did this diligently for more than a hundred and twenty
leagues, so that if others were sent in pursuit of him, they would
find the country depopulated and in rebellion, and would be killed
by the Indians in revenge for the damage and destruction he had
done.

31. A few days later they [the Spaniards] killed the principal captain
who had sent him and against whom he had mutinied. Afterwards there
succeeded other most cruel tyrants who, with slaughter and dreadful
cruelty, and with the captur