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have robbed us, with promises of benefits which we have not seen, in hope of which 
they wish that those of us who call ourselves Christians experience at once the losses 
and discomforts: they take from us women, leaving us only one and that in perpetuity, 
prohibiting us from changing her; they obstruct our dances, banquets, feasts, cele- 
brations, fires, and wars, so that by failing to use them we lose the ancient valor and 
dexterity inherited from our ancestors; they persecute our old people calling them 
witches; even our labor disturbs them, since they want to command us to avoid it on 
some days, and be prepared to execute all that they say, although they are not satis- 
fied; they always reprimand us, injure us, oppress us, preach to us, call us bad Chris- 
tians, and deprive us of all happiness, which our ancestors enjoyed, with the hope 
that they will give us heaven. These are deceptions in order to subject us, in holding 
us disposed after their manner; already what can we expect, except to be slaves? If 
now we kill all of them, we will remove such a heavy yoke immediately, and our 
valor will make the governor treat us well, if it happens that he does not come out 
badly." The multitude was convinced by his speech; and as a sign of their victory, 
they cut off Father Corpa's head, and they put it in the port 1 on a lance, as a trophy of 
their victory, and the body they threw into a forest, where it was never found. 
They passed to the town of Topiqui, where lived Fr. Bias Rodriguez (Torquemada 
gives him the appelation of de Montes), they went in suddenly, telling him they came 
to kill him. Fr. Bias asked them to let him say mass first, and they suspended their 
ferocity for that brief time; but as soon as he had finished saying it, they gave him so 
many blows, that they finished him, and they threw his body outside, so that the 
birds and beasts might eat it, but none came to it except a dog, which ventured to 
touch it, and fell dead. An old Christian Indian took it up and gave it burial in the 
woods. 
From there they went to the town of Assopo, in the island of Quale, where were 
Fr. Miguel de Aunon, and Fr. Antonio Badajoz; they knew beforehand of their 
coming, and seeing that flight was impossible, Fr. Miguel began to say mass, and 
administered the sacrament to Fr. Antonio, and both began to pray. Four hours 
afterward the Indians entered, killed friar Antonio instantly with a club (macana); 
and afterward gave friar Miguel two blows with it. and, leaving the bodies in the same 
place, some Christain Indians buried them at the foot of a very high cross, which the 
same friar Miguel had set up in the country. 
The Indians, continuing their cruelty, set out with great speed for the town of 
Asao where lived friar Francisco de Velascola, native of Castro-Urdiales, a very poor 
and humble monk, but with such forcefulness that he caused the Indians great fear: 
he was at that time in the city of St. Agustine. Great was the disappointment of the 
Indians, because it appeared to them that they had done nothing if they left the friar 
Francisco alive. They learned in the town the day when he would return to it. went 
to the place where he was to disembark, and some awaited him hidden in a clump 
of rushes, near the bank. Friar Francisco arrived in a canoe, and, dissimulating, 
they surrounded him and took him by the shoulders, giving him many blows, with 
clubs (macaruts) and axes, until his soul was restored to God. 
They passed to the town of Ospo, where lived friar Franciso Davila, 2 who as soon as 
he heard the noise at the doors was able under cover of night to go out into the country; 
the Indians followed him, and although he had hidden himself in some rushes, by 
the light of the moon they pierced his shoulders with three arrows; and wishing to 
continue until they had finished him, an Indian interposed, in order to possess him- 
self of his poor clothing, which he had to do in order that they might'leave him, who 
took him bare and well bound, and he was carried to a town of infidel Indians to serve 
as a slave. These cruelties did not fail to receive the punishment of God; for many 
of those who were concerned in these martyrdoms hung themselves with their bow- 
1 This word, puerto, may be a misprint of puerta, gate. 
2 This name is given farther on as de Avila or Avila. See p. 87. 
