cy and the fear of God and the King, the Spaniards have
destroyed a very large part of the human race.
33. Within the space of ten years they have killed, up to the present
day, more than four millions of persons; and they are still killing.
34. A short time since they pursued and killed a great queen, wife of
Elingue, he who was left king of those kingdoms which the Christians
had tyrannically seized and provoked to rise in the present
rebellion. They captured the queen, his wife who, it is said, was
pregnant and, contrary to all justice, they killed her, only to
grieve her husband.
35. If the cruelties and different murders committed by the Christians,
and their daily deeds in those kingdoms of Peru were to be told,
they would doubtless be so horrible and so numerous that what we
have recounted of the other countries would fade, and seem little,
compared with their number and their gravity.

Of the New Kingdom of Granada

In the year 1539 many tyrants joined together and started from
Venezuela, Santa Marta, and Cartagena for Peru: and others came back
from the same Peru to explore those countries. Three hundred
leagues inland behind Santa Marta and Cartagena, they found some
very delightful and marvellous provinces, full of numberless people,
as mild and kind as the others, and very rich in gold, and in those
precious stones called emeralds.
2. To these provinces they gave the name of the new kingdom of Granada;
because those tyrants who first came to these countries were natives
of the kingdom of Granada in Spain.
3. As many iniquitous and cruel men among those who gathered from all
parts, were notorious butchers and shedders of human blood who were
very inured to, and experienced in the great sins that we have said
were committed in many parts of the Indies, it follows that their
fiendish operations, and the circumstances and qualities that
blackened and aggravated them, were such that they have surpassed
very many, or indeed all, that the others and they themselves have
committed elsewhere in the Indies.
4. Of the multitude they have committed in these three years, and
continue without ceasing to commit, I will briefly relate a few. As
a man who was robbing and murdering in the said kingdom would