The Province of Nicaragua

The Governor of Nicaragua, had given great freedom to his subordinates in the matter of petitioning slaves from caciques of the towns. They petitioned every four or five months and each time a new allotment. The Governor could obtain 50 slaves at a time by threatening the caciques with being burned at the stake or thrown to the fierce dogs if he refused. Since the Indians do not commonly have slaves, he simply went through the settlement, taking orphans, taking one son from those who had two, taking two sons from those who had three. In this way, the cacique completed the number demanded by the tyrant, with loud lamentations and weeping by the people, for it seems they most greatly love their sons.