, that one Alonso Sanchez was sent by the
said captain in command of certain people in a province; on the way,
he met a number of women and boys loaded with provisions who,
instead of fleeing, waited for him, to give them to him; and he had
them all put to the sword.
13. And a miracle happened when a soldier was stabbing an Indian woman;
at the first blow the sword broke in half, and at the second only
the handle was left, without his being able to wound her. Another
soldier with a double bladed dagger wanted to stab another Indian
woman, but at the first blow four fingers' length of the point broke
off, and at the second nothing remained but the handle alone.
14. When the said captain left Quito, leading away such a quantity of
natives, separating them from their wives, giving some of the young
girls to those Indians he took with him, and others to those who
were left behind on account of their old age, a woman came behind
him, with a little child in her arms, weeping and begging him not to
take her husband away from her, because she had three little
children whom she would not be able to bring up, and who would die
of starvation; and seeing that he answered her roughly the first
time, she came back a second with louder cries saying, that her
children would die of starvation: and when she saw, that he
commanded she should be driven away and that he would not release
her husband, she threw the child on some stones and killed it.
15. When the said captain arrived in the province of Lili at a town
called Palo near the great river, he found there the Captain Juan de
Ampudia, who had gone in advance to explore and pacify the country;
the said Ampudia had founded a town called Ampudia, in the name of
His Majesty and of the Marquis Francisco Pizarro, and had appointed
Pedro Solano de Quinones and eight rulers as ordinary judges; and
the greater part of the country was at peace, and divided. As soon
as he knew that the said captain was at the river, he went to see
him accompanied by many of the inhabitants and peaceful Indians,
loaded with provisions and fruit; and from thenceforward all the
Indians in the neighbourhood went to visit the said captain, and to
bring him food.
16. These were the Indians from Namudi, Palo, Soliman, and Bolo