ese people, they did the same; torturing the lord
of the town or towns, that had been confided to them, with divers
and fierce tortures while those lords and their people felt
themselves safe, and were giving them all the gold and emeralds they
could: the Spaniards tortured them only to extort more gold and
jewels. And in this way they burnt and cut to pieces all the lords
of that country.
11. Terror-stricken by the excessive cruelty practised upon the Indians
by one of those particular tyrants a great lord called Daytama fled,
with many of his people from such inhumanity, and retreated to the
mountains. This, if it did but avail, they conceive to be the
remedy and refuge, and this is what the Spaniards call revolt and
rebellion.
12. The principal tyrant captain hearing this, sent a force to that
cruel man, whose ferocity and wickedness towards the peaceful and
submissive Indians had driven them to the mountains; the latter went
in pursuit of the natives, and because it sufficed not to hide in
the bowels of the earth, they found a large number of people whom
they killed, cutting to pieces more than five hundred men, women,
and children, and sparing no one.
13. The witnesses also say that before his death, the same Prince
Daytama had been to see that cruel man and had taken him four or
five thousand crowns, but notwithstanding this, he committed the
said slaughter.
14. Another time a great number of people having come to serve the
Spaniards, and feeling themselves safe, serving with their humility
and simplicity, the captain entered the town one night where the
Indians were and commanded that all those Indians should be put to
the sword while some of them were sleeping, and some supping and
resting from the labours of the day.
15. He perpetrated this massacre because it seemed good to him to make
himself feared by all the people of the country.
16. Another time the captain put all the Spaniards on oath, to lead at
once as many lords and chiefs and common people as each had in his
household service, to the square, where he had all their heads cut
off, thus killing four or five hundred people. And the witnesses
say that he thought in this way to pacify the country.
17. The witnesses depose that one particular tyrant did great cru