to another town, called Tolilicuy, (105) where
the lord at once came forth peaceably with many Indians: and the
said captain demanded gold of him and of his Indians. The lord said
he had but little, but that he would give him what he had. They all
immediately began to bring him what they could.
24. The said captain gave each of the Indians a ticket bearing the name
of the said Indian who had given him gold, threatening that any
Indian who did not pay and was without this ticket, should be thrown
to the dogs. Terrified by this, all the Indians who had gold, gave
him all that they could; and those who had none fled to the mountain
and to other towns, for fear of being killed; for which reason a
great number of natives perished.
25. The said captain forthwith ordered the lords to send two Indians to
another town, called Dagua, to order the inhabitants to come
peaceably to him, and bring him a quantity of gold.
26. On arriving at another town, he sent a number of Spaniards, and
Indians from Tolilicuy to capture many Indians, and so the following
day they brought back more than a hundred persons with them. He took
all those capable of carrying loads, for himself and the soldiers,
and put them in chains so that they all died; and the said captain
gave the infants to the said lords of Tolilicuy to be eaten. And
to-day in the house of the said Lord Tolilicuy there are the skins
of the infants full of ashes.
27. Without saying anything, he departed from there for the provinces of
Calili, where he joined Captain Juan de Ampudia, who had been sent
by him to explore the country by another route; both the one and the
other did much slaughter and much injury to the native people
wherever they went.
28. The said Juan de Ampudia arrived at a place, the lord of which was
called Bitacon; he had prepared some pits for his defence, into
which two horses belonging to Antonio Redondo and Marcus Marquez
fell; the latter died but the other not. In consequence of this the
said Ampudia ordered as many as possible of the Indians, men and
women, to be captured; more than a hundred persons were captured
whom they threw into those pits alive where they killed them, and
they burnt more than a hundred houses in that town.
29. Thus they joined one another at a