The S^aturallanJ Moral! 



which are very hurtful!, for that they gather together 

 in troupes to doe mifchiefe,and to robbe : neither can 

 the Spaniards by force or cunning reduce them to any 

 policie or obedience : for having no tovvnes nor pla 

 ces of refidence 3 to fight with them, were properly to 

 hunt after favage Ucafts , which fcatter and hide them- 

 felves in the moft rough and covered places of the 

 : mountain es . Such is their mancr of living even to this 

 day, in many Provinces of \htlndics. InthcBookes 

 Eeprocuranda Indiontrnfalutty they difcourfe chiefly of 

 this fort of Indians , where it is faide that they are to be 

 conft rained and fubie&cd by fbme honeft force , and 

 that it is necdlary firft to teach them, that they arc 

 men, and then to be Chriftians . Some will fay , that 

 thofc in New Spaine, which they call Ottoinies, were of 

 this fort, being commonly poore Indians , inhabiting 

 a rough and barren Iand 3 andyc they are in good n urn- 

 bers,and live together with feme order,and fuch as do 

 know them, find them no lefleaptand capable of mat 

 ters of chriftian religion, than others which are held to 

 be more rich and better governed. Comming there 

 fore to our fubie&, the Chichimccas z&dQitowics which 

 were the full inhabitants of New Spaine , for that they 

 did neyther till nor (owe the land , they left the beit 

 and moil fertile of the country vnpeopled^vhich, Na 

 tions that came from farredid pofTefTe , whome they 

 called Vtyvatalcat , for that it w-asamorecivillandpo- 

 litike Nation ; this word fignifies a people that fpeakes 

 \vell,in refpecl of other barbarous nations without rca- 

 fon . Thcfefccond peoplers Navatalcas, came from o- 

 ther&recou'ntriesjwhkh lie toward the north,where- 

 POW they have difcovered a kingdome they call New 

 'Mexico. 



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