FERNANDO ALARCHON a.d. 



1540. 



from armes, therefore as long as I should not com- 

 mand them to take armes, they would not begin to 

 wage warre agahist others, & they said among them- 

 selves, that seeing I was come unto them, they had 

 given over their intention of making warre, & that 

 they had a good mind to live in peace. He complained 

 of certaine people which dwelt behind in a mountaine Certalne war- 

 which made great war upon them, and slew many of [.^f^°^[ ^' 

 tiiem : I answered him, that from henceforward they f^i„g^ 

 should not need to feare any more, because 1 had 

 commanded them to be quiet, & if they would not obey 

 my commandement, I would chasten them and kill them. 

 He enquired of me how I could kill them seeing we 

 were so few, and they so many in number. And because 

 it was now late and that I saw by this time he was 

 weary to stay any longer with me, I let him goe out 

 of my boat, and therewith I dismissed him very well 

 content. 



Chap. 4. 

 Of Naguachato and other chiefe men of those Indians 

 they receive great store of victuals, they cause them 

 to set up a crosse in their countreys, and hee teacheth 

 them to worship it. They have newes of many 

 people, of their divers languages, and customes in 

 matrimony, how they punish adultery, of their 

 opinions concerning the dead, and of the sicknesses 

 which they are subject unto. 



THe next day betimes in the morning came the 

 chiefe man among them called Naguachato, and 

 wished me to come on land because he had great store 

 of victuals to give me. And because I saw my selfe 

 in securitie I did so without doubting ; and incontinently 

 an olde man came with rols of that Maiz, and certaine 

 litle gourds, and calling me with a loud voyce and using 

 many gestures with his body and armes, came neere 

 unto me, and causing me to turne me unto that people, 

 and hee himselfe also turning unto them sayd unto 



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