wife and certain other persons, by telling him they
would prepare a feast there for him.
15. At last seventeen persons went on board with the lord and his wife,
confident that as the monks were in the country, out of respect for
them, the Spaniards would not do anything wicked; because otherwise
they would not have trusted them. Once the Indians were on the
ship, the traitors set sail and were off to Hispaniola, where they
sold them for slaves.
16. On seeing their lord and his wife carried off, all the Indians came
to the friars intending to kill them. The friars were like to die
for sorrow on beholding such great villany, and it may be believed
they would have rather given their lives than that such injustice
should have been done; especially as it impeded those souls from
ever hearing or believing the word of God.
17. They called the Indians as best they could and told them that by the
first ship that passed there, they would write to Hispaniola and
bring about the restoration of their lord and of the others who were
with him. For the greater confirmation of the damnation of those who
were governing, God caused a ship to come at once to hand. The
monks wrote to their brethren in Hispaniola lamenting and protesting
repeatedly. The auditors never would do justice, because they
themselves had divided a share of the Indians so barbarously and
unjustly carried off by the tyrants.
18. The two monks who had promised the Indians that their lord, Don
Alonso, together with the others, should return in four months'
time, seeing that they did not come, neither in four, nor in eight
months prepared for death, and to give their lives to those to whom
they had consecrated them before they left. And so the Indians took
vengeance upon them, killing them justly, although they were
innocent: because it was believed that the monks had been the cause
of that treachery, and because they saw that what had been
faithfully promised them within four months was not fulfilled; and
also because up to that time and up to the present day they neither
knew, nor know, that there is a difference between the friars and
the Spanish tyrants, bandits, and assassins of all that country.
19. The blessed friars suffered unjustly, and by that injustice there is
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