FRIAR MARCO DE Nig A a.d. 



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 the Sunne was a lance high, Stephan went out of the 

 house, and some of the chiefe men with him, and 

 suddenly came store of people from the citie, whom 

 assoone as hee sawe he began to run away and we like- 

 wise, and foorthwith they shot at us and wounded us, 

 and certaine dead men fell upon us, and so we lay till 

 night and durst not stirre, and we heard great rumours in 

 the citie, and saw many men and women keeping watch 

 and ward upon the walles thereof, and after this we 

 could not see Stephan any more, and wee thinke they 

 have shot him to death, as they have done all the rest 

 which went with him, so that none are escaped but 

 we onely. 



Chap. 5. 



The situation and greatnesse of the Citie of Cevola, 

 and how frier Marcus tooke possession thereof and 

 of other provinces, calling the same. The new 

 kingdome of S. Francis, and how after his depar- 

 ture from thence being preserved by God in so 

 dangerous a voyage, he arrived at Compostella in 

 Nueva Galicia. 



HAving considered the former report of the Indians, 

 and the evill meanes which I had to prosecute 

 my voyage as 1 desired, I thought it not good wilfully 

 to loose my life as Stephan did : and so I told them, 

 that God would punish those of Cevola, and that the 

 Viceroy when he should understand what had happened, 

 would send many Christians to chastise them : but 

 they would not beleeve me, for they sayde that no 

 man was able to withstand the power of Cevola. And 

 herewithall I left them, and went aside two or three 

 stones cast, and when I returned I found an Indian of 

 mine which I had brought from Mexico called Marcus, 

 who wept and sayde unto me : Father, these men have 

 consulted to kill us, for they say, that through your and 

 Stephans meanes their fathers are slaine, and that 

 neither man nor woman of them shall remaine unslaine. 



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