the dogs should not tear her
to pieces as they tore the others, she tied her little son of one
year to one foot, and then hanged herself on a beam; she was not
quick enough before the dogs came up and tore the child limb from
limb, although a friar baptised it before it expired.
11. When the Spaniards were leaving the kingdom, one of them asked the
son of a lord of a certain town or province to go with him; the
child answered, that he did not wish to leave his country: the
Spaniard replied, "come along with me, or I will cut off your ears";
as the boy said that he would not, the man seized a dagger and cut
off one of his ears, and then the other; and on the boy still saying
that he would not leave his country, he slit his nostrils, laughing
as though he were only giving him a pinch.
12. This lost soul lauded himself, and shamelessly boasted before a
venerable monk that he tried his best to get many Indian women with
child, because when they were pregnant he got a better price on
selling them for slaves.
13. In this kingdom, or possibly in a province of New Spain, a Spaniard
went hunting game, or rabbits, with his dogs; one day, not finding
anything to hunt, it seemed to him that the dogs were hungry, so he
seized a little child from its mother and cut off its arms and legs
with a dagger, giving each dog its portion and when they had eaten
these pieces he threw that little body on the ground for all of them
together.
14. Consider only the inhumanity of the Spaniards in these parts and how
God has let them fall into reprobate appetite; consider of what
account they hold these people who are created in God's image and
redeemed by His blood. But we shall see worse things below.
15. Leaving the infinite and unheard of cruelties perpetrated by those
who call themselves Christians, in this kingdom where there is no
justice worth speaking of, I will conclude with this only: that when
all the infernal tyrants had left, eager for and blinded by the
riches of Peru, Fray Jacomo proceeded, with four monks of his Order
of St. Francis, to that kingdom, to pacify it, and to preach and
bring to Jesus Christ the remnant of people left from the infernal
harvesting and the tyrannical massacres committed by the Spaniards
during seven years; and I t