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anyway, he went off without getting any satisfaction.' The next day 

 one of the Indians, who was guarding the horses of the army, came 

 running in, saying that a companion of his had been killed, and that 

 the Indians of the country were driving off the horses toward their 

 villages. The Spaniards tried to collect the horses again, but many 

 were lost, besides seven of the general's mules. 2 



The next day Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas went to see the villages 

 and talk with the natives. He found the villages closed by palisades 

 and a great noise inside, the horses being chased as in a bull fight and 

 shot with arrows. They were all ready for fighting. Nothing could be 

 done, because they would not come down onto the plain and the villages 

 are so strong that the Spaniards could not dislodge them. The general 

 then ordered Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas to go and surround one 

 village with all the rest of the force. This village was the one where the 

 greatest injury had been done and where the affair with the Indian 

 woman occurred. Several captains who had gone on in advance with 

 the general, Juan de Saldivar and Barrionuevo and Diego Lopez and 

 Melgosa.' took the Indians so much by surprise that they gained the 

 upper story, with great danger, for they wounded many of our men 

 from within the houses. Our men were on top of the houses in great 

 danger for a day and a night and part of the next day, and they made 

 some good shots with their crossbows and muskets. The horsemen on 

 the plain with many of the Indian allies from New Spain smoked them 

 out from the cellars ' into which they had broken, so that they begged 

 for peace. 5 Pablo de Melgosa and Diego Lopez, the alderman from 

 Seville, were left on the roof and answered the Indians with the same 

 signs they were making for peace, which was to make a cross. They 

 then put down their arms and received pardon. They were taken 

 to the tent of Don Garcia, who, according to what he said, did not 

 know about the peace and thought that they had given themselves 

 up of their own accord because they had been conquered. As he 

 had been ordered by the general not to take them alive, but to make 

 an example of them so that the other natives would fear the Span- 

 iards, he ordered 200 stakes to be prepared at once to burn them alive. 



'Tlic instructions which Momloza gave to Alan on show how carefully the viceroy tried to guard 

 against any such trouble with the natives. Buckingham Smith's Florida, ]>- 4: "Iten: si pobla- 

 redes en alguna parte, no sea outre los yndios, sine apartado dellos, y mandareys que ningun 

 espanol ni otra persona de las vuestras vaya al lugar ni a las cassas de los yndios sino fuere con 

 expressa licencia vuestra, y al que Lo contrario hiziere castigalle eys muy asperamente, y la licencia 



ave\ - ill (1 ilia las VBZ6S que fuere llccessario pala alguna COSSa que i onvenga y a perSOnas lie qlllell 



vns esteys confiado que no hara" cosss ma] hecha, y estatl muy advertido en guardar esta orden, porque 



es cOSSa qui eiin\ ieni- mas de to que vns pulleys pen ar." 



-Espejo, Relation del Viaje, 1584 (Pacheco y Cardenas, Doc. de Indias, vol. xv, p. 175), says that at 

 Pnala (Tigm-xi pueblo, "hallamos relation muy verdadera; que estuboen esta provincia Francisco 

 Vazquez Coronado yle mataron en ella nneve solihnlos y euarenta eaballos, \ que pur este respeto 

 habia asolado la gente ile un pueblo desta provincia, y destos nos dieron razon los naturales ilestos 

 pueblos por senas que entendimos.' 1 



3 Temau\ says Diego Iaqie/ Melgosa, and when Mt Ijnsa s name appears again he lias it Pablo Lopez 

 Melgosa. 



4 Evidently I lie underground, or partially underground, ceremonial chambers or kivas. 



5 Coinpare the Spanish text. 



