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ving the prefents, anfwcred, that he was the fame they 

 (pake of, wherewith they were greatly fatisfied, feeing 

 themfelves to be curteoufly received and intreated by 

 him (for in that, as wel as in other things , this valiant 

 captainedeferved commendations) that ifthiscourfe 

 had beene continued, to win them by love, itfeemed 

 the beft occafion was offered that might be devifed, to 

 draw this country to the Gofpel by peace and love:but 

 the finnes of thefe cruel homicides and'flaves of Satan, 

 required punifhment from heaven, as alfo thofe of ma 

 ny Spaniards, which were not in finall number. Thus 

 the high Judgements of God difpofed of the health of 

 this nation, having firft cutte off the peri(hed rootes : 

 and as the Apoftle faieth, the wickednes and blindenes 

 of fome , hath beene the falvarion ofothei s.|To con. 

 chide, the day after this Ambaflage, all the Captaines 

 and Commanders of the fleete, came vnto the Admi- 

 rall, where vnderfianding the matter, and that this 

 realmcof Mote$uin* wasmightie and rich itfeemed 

 fittogaincthe reputation of brave and valiant men a- 

 mong this people, and that by this meanes, (although 

 they were few,) they fliould bee feared and received 

 into J/tt/i*. To this end they difcharged all their ar- 

 tilleriefrom their fliippes, which being a thing the In 

 dians had never heard, they were amazed, as if heaven 

 had fallen vpon them.| Then the Spaniards beganne to 

 defie them to fight wjth them: bu t the Indians not da- 

 \ ring to hazard themfelves, they did beate them and in- 

 treate them ill, fhewing their fwordes, lances, pertur- 

 fans,and other armesjwherewith they did terrific them 

 much. \Thepoore Indians were by reafbnheereof , fo 

 fearefuil and amazed, as they changed their opinion, 

 faying>that their JLord Totilcin came not in this troup 



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