As the Spanish wretches went about with their savage dogs trying to terrorize the Indians, men and women alike, one woman tied her year-old child to her foot and hanged herself from a beam. No sooner had she done this than the dogs arrived and tore the child to pieces. It must be added that a Franciscan friar baptized the child before it died.
As the Spaniards prepared to depart from this Kingdom, one of them told the son of a chieftain of a certain village to come with them. The boy said No, he did not want to leave his country. The Spaniard responded: "Come with us, otherwise, I will cut off your ears" The boy still said No. Thee Spaniard unsheathed his dagger and cut off the boy's ears, first one, then the other. And when the boy said again that he did not want to leave his land, the Spaniard cut off his nose, laughing as he did, as if he had administered a punishment as trifling as to pull the boy's hair.
One day, a certain Spaniard went hunting for stags or rabbits and, finding no game and wanting to satisfy his dogs, he took a baby from its Indian mother and with his sword sliced off the child's arms and legs for the dogs to share, then after that meal on those pieces of flesh, he threw down the little body for all the dogs to share.
In 1534, some friars offered to stay with the people of a devastated Indian Kingdom. They called a council of all the village chiefs. Finally they welcomed them and said they could stay provided they would not be accompanied by any other Spaniards. The friars promised to abide by this ruling, which was approved by the Viceroy of New Spain.
Friars preached gospel of Christ as it should be preached and the Indians learned articles of the Faith and about the Kings of Spain who were their sovereign rulers. At the end of forty days of preaching, the Indians took the friars to show them their idols, handing them over to be burned and afterward took the friars to meet their sons and tell them about the burning of the idols for they wanted their sons, who were apple of their eyes, to hear the friars preach. Pursueded by Franciscan friars, twelve or fifteen noble chieftains, each having much land and many vassals, each one acting on his own account, assembled their vassals and taking their votes, he and they declared themselves subjects of the King of Castile and recognized the Emperor as their supreme and universal ruler.
At this time, there entered the land eighteen Spanish horsemen and twelve foot soldiers, a total of thirty, bringing many loads of idols taken from Indians in other provinces. The Captain summoned an Indian noble and asked them to buy the idols for an Indian man or woman to be given to the Spaniards. When Indians saw there no true escape from wicked Spaniards, they rose up in angry revolt and the entire population joined them in opposition to the Franciscan friars. Some Indians came to them saying: "Why did you lie to us, falsely telling us that no other Christians would enter our lands? And now they have come to sell us the gods of other provinces and other nations. And why did you burn our gods? Were not our gods better than theirs?"
The Franciscan friars tried to pacify Indians and sought the Spaniards to leave the land. Spaniards refused to leave and Indians decided to kill friars. Having been warned, the friars, managed to escape one night.
As the Spaniards prepared to depart from this Kingdom, one of them told the son of a chieftain of a certain village to come with them. The boy said No, he did not want to leave his country. The Spaniard responded: "Come with us, otherwise, I will cut off your ears" The boy still said No. Thee Spaniard unsheathed his dagger and cut off the boy's ears, first one, then the other. And when the boy said again that he did not want to leave his land, the Spaniard cut off his nose, laughing as he did, as if he had administered a punishment as trifling as to pull the boy's hair.
One day, a certain Spaniard went hunting for stags or rabbits and, finding no game and wanting to satisfy his dogs, he took a baby from its Indian mother and with his sword sliced off the child's arms and legs for the dogs to share, then after that meal on those pieces of flesh, he threw down the little body for all the dogs to share.
In 1534, some friars offered to stay with the people of a devastated Indian Kingdom. They called a council of all the village chiefs. Finally they welcomed them and said they could stay provided they would not be accompanied by any other Spaniards. The friars promised to abide by this ruling, which was approved by the Viceroy of New Spain.
Friars preached gospel of Christ as it should be preached and the Indians learned articles of the Faith and about the Kings of Spain who were their sovereign rulers. At the end of forty days of preaching, the Indians took the friars to show them their idols, handing them over to be burned and afterward took the friars to meet their sons and tell them about the burning of the idols for they wanted their sons, who were apple of their eyes, to hear the friars preach. Pursueded by Franciscan friars, twelve or fifteen noble chieftains, each having much land and many vassals, each one acting on his own account, assembled their vassals and taking their votes, he and they declared themselves subjects of the King of Castile and recognized the Emperor as their supreme and universal ruler.
At this time, there entered the land eighteen Spanish horsemen and twelve foot soldiers, a total of thirty, bringing many loads of idols taken from Indians in other provinces. The Captain summoned an Indian noble and asked them to buy the idols for an Indian man or woman to be given to the Spaniards. When Indians saw there no true escape from wicked Spaniards, they rose up in angry revolt and the entire population joined them in opposition to the Franciscan friars. Some Indians came to them saying: "Why did you lie to us, falsely telling us that no other Christians would enter our lands? And now they have come to sell us the gods of other provinces and other nations. And why did you burn our gods? Were not our gods better than theirs?"
The Franciscan friars tried to pacify Indians and sought the Spaniards to leave the land. Spaniards refused to leave and Indians decided to kill friars. Having been warned, the friars, managed to escape one night.
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