Marching into the southern province of Mechuacam, Spaniards captured its King who came out to welcome them. He was tortured as he was reputed to have a large store of gold and silver and other treasures. They stretched his body between two branches of a tree and placed a burning brazier under his feet and a boy, with a swab dipped in oil sprinkled the soles of his feet from time to time to roast them well, while a cruel soldier kept hs arbalest aimed at victims heart and another excited a savage dog to attack the tortured man. And in a trice the dog amputed his hands. To this, a Franciscan friar bore witness. And from all these torments, the Indian King soon perished.
One Spaniard took a maiden by force to commit the sin of the flesh with her, dragging her away from her mother, finally having to unsheath his sword to cutt off the womans hands and when the damsel still resisted they stabbed her to death.
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