New Spain and Panuco and Xalisco

After the great cruelties and massacres, that have been described
(besides those not mentioned) had been committed in the provinces of
New Spain and that of Panuco another senseless and cruel tyrant(94)
arrived in Panuco in the year 1525. By committing great cruelty and
putting many in irons, and enslaving great numbers of freemen in the
ways above told, and sending shiploads of them to the islands of
Cuba and Hispaniola, where they could best he sold, he finished
devastating all that province. Eighty Indians, reasonable beings,
were given in exchange for a horse.
2. From Panuco, he was sent to govern the city of Mexico and all New
Spain as President, with other great tyrants as Auditors: and the
great evils, many sins and the amount of cruelty, robbery, and
abomination he and they together committed, are beyond belief. They
thus reduced all that country to such extreme ruin, that in two
years they would have brought New Spain to the condition of the
island of Hispaniola, had God not prevented them by the resistance
of the Franciscan friars and afterwards, by the appointment of a
Royal Audiencia composed of good men, friendly to all virtue.
3. One of this man's companions forced eight thousand Indians to work,
without any payment or food, at building a wall around his great
garden; they dropped dead from hunger but he showed no concern
whatever.
4. When this president, of whom I said he finished devastating Panuco,
learned that the said good royal Audiencia was coming, he found an
excuse to go inland to discover some place where he might tyrannise;
he forced fifteen, or twenty thousand men of the province of Mexico
to carry the baggage of his expedition, of whom not two hundred
returned, all the rest having perished under his tyranny.
5. He arrived in the province of Mechuacan, which is forty leagues
distant from Mexico and similar to it, both in prosperity, and in
the number of its people. The king and ruler came out to receive
him with a procession of numberless people, rendering a thousand
services and making him presents; he at once took the said king
prisoner because he was reputed to have great riches of gold and
silver: to force him to surrender his many treasures, th