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The governor remained seated with him a short time, and after a little he arose and 
said that they should come to eat, and he took him with him and the Indians came to 
dance; and they danced very wel) in the fashion of rustics in Spain, so that it was pleas- 
ant to see them. At night he desired to go, and the commander told him that he must 
sleep there. He understood it and showed that he scoffed at such an intention for him, 
being the lord, to receive so suddenly restraints upon his liberty, and dissembling, he 
immediately despatched his principal men each by himself, and he slept there not- 
withstanding his reluctance. The next day the governor asked him for carriers and a 
hundred Indian women; and the chief gave him four hundred carriers and the rest of 
them and the women he said he would give at Mabila, the province of one of his prin- 
cipal vassals. And the governor acquiesced in having the rest of that unjust request 
of his fulfilled in Mabila; and he ordered him to be given a horse and some buskins 
and a scarlet cloak for him to ride off happy. 
At last, Tuesday, October 12, they departed from the village of Atahachi, taking 
along the chief, as has been said, and with him many principal men, and always the 
Indian with the sunshade attending his lord, and another with a cushion And that 
night they slept in the open country The next day, Wednesday, they came to 
Piachi, which is a village high above the gorge of a mountain stream ; and the chief of 
this place was evil intentioned, and attempted to resist their passage; and as a result, 
they crossed the stream with effort, and two Christians were slain, and also the prin- 
cipal Indians who accompanied the chief. In this village, Piachi, it was learned that 
they had killed Don Teodoro and a black, who came from the ships of Pamphilo de 
Narvaez. 1 
Saturday, October 16, they departed thence into a mountain where they met one 
of the two Christians whom the governor had sent to Mabila, and he said that in 
Mabila there had gathered together much people in arms The next day they came to 
a fenced village, and there came messengers from Mabila bringing to the chief much 
bread made from chestnuts, which are abundant and excellent in that region. 
Monday, October 18, St. Luke's day, the governor came to Mabila, having passed 
that day by several villages, which was the reason that the soldiers stayed behind to 
forage and to scatter themselves, for the region appeared populous And there went 
on with the governor only forty horsemen as an advance guard, and after they had 
tarried a little, that the governor might not show weakness, he entered into the village 
with the chief, and all his guard went in with him. Here the Indians immediately 
began an areyto, 2 which is their fashion for a ball with dancing and song. While this 
was going on some soldiers saw them putting bundles of bows and arrows slyly among 
some palm leaves, and other Christians saw that above and below the cabins were 
full of people concealed. The governor was informed of it, and he put his helmet on 
his head and ordered all to go and mount their horses and warn all the soldiers that 
had come up. Hardly had they gone out when the Indians took the entrances of the 
stockade, and there were left with the governor, Luis de Moscoso and Baltasar de 
Gallegos, and Espindola, the captain of the guard, and seven or eight soldiers. And 
the chief went into a cabin and refused to come out of it. Then they began to shoot 
arrows at the governor. Baltasar de Gallegos went in for the chief, he not being willing 
to come out. He disabled the arm of a principal Indian with the slash of a knife. 
Luis de Moscoso waited at the door, so as not to leave him alone, and he was fighting 
like a knight and did all that was possible until ' ' not being able to endure any more, 
he cried, Senor Baltasar de Gallegos, come out, or I will leave you, for I cannot wait 
any longer for you." During this, Solis, a resident of Trianaof Seville, had ridden 
up, and Rodrigo Ranjel, who were the first, and for his sins Solis was immediately 
stricken down dead ; but Rodrigo Ranjel got to the gate of the town at the time when 
i See p. 145. 2 A West Indian word for an Indian dance. (Note by Bourne. - ) 
