wiNSBir] TRANSLATION OF CASTANEDA 499 



assaults were made. The lack of water was what troubled the Indians 

 most. They dug a very deep well inside the village, but were not able 

 to get water, and while they were making it, it fell in and killed .'50 per- 

 sons. Two hundred of the besieged died in the fights. One day when 

 there was a hard fight, they killed Francisco de Obaudo, a captain 

 who had been army-master all the time that Don Garcia Lopez de Car- 

 denas was away making the discoveries already described, and also 

 Francisco Pobares, a fine gentleman. Our men were unable to prevent 

 them from carrying Francisco de Obando inside the village, which was 

 regretted not a little, because he was a distinguished person, besides 

 being honored on his own account, affable and much beloved, which 

 was noticeable. 1 One day, before the capture was completed, they 

 asked to speak to us, and said that, since they knew we would not 

 harm the women and children, they wished to surrender their women 

 and sons, because they were using up their water. It was impos- 

 sible to persuade them to make peace, as they said that the Spaniards 

 would not keep an agreement made with them. So they gave up about 

 a hundred persons, women and boys, who did not want to leave them. 

 Don Lope de Urrea 2 rode up in front of the town without his helmet 

 and received the boys and girls in his arms, and when all of these had 

 been surrendered, Don Lope begged them to make peace, giving them 

 the strongest promises for their safety. They told him to go away, as 

 they did not wish to trust themselves to people who had no regard for 

 friendship or their own word which they had pledged. As he seemed 

 unwilling to go away, one of them put an arrow in his bow ready to 

 shoot, and threatened to shoot him with it unless he went off, and they 

 warned him to put on his helmet, but he was unwilling to do so, saying 

 that they would not hurt him as long as he stayed there. When the 

 Indian saw that he did not want to go away, he shot and planted his 

 arrow between the fore feet of the horse, and then put another arrow 

 in his bow and repeated that if he did not go away he would really 

 shoot him. Don Lope put on his helmet and slowly rode back to where 

 the horsemen were, without receiving any harm from them. When they 

 saw that he was really in safety, they began to shoot arrows in show- 

 ers, with loud yells and cries. The general did not want to make an 

 assault that day, in order to see if they could be brought in some way 

 to make peace, which they would not consider. 



Fifteen days later they decided to leave the village one night, and 

 did so, taking the women in their midst. They started about the 

 fourth watch, in the very early morning, on the side where the cavalry 

 was. 3 The alarm was given by those in the camp of Don Rodrigo 



■But see the Spanish. Ternaux translates it: " Les Indiens parvinrent a s'emparer de (d'Obando) 

 et l'enimenerent vivant daus leur village, . . . car c'etait uu homme distingue qui, par sa vertu et 

 son affabilite, s etait fait aimer de tout le monde." 



s Ternaux substituted the name of Don Garci-Lopez for that of Don Lope throughout this passage. 



: Compare the Spanish text. Ternaux: "lis prirent le parti d'abandonner le village pendant la 

 nuit: ils se mirent done fin route: les feninies inarehaient au milieu d'eux. Quand lis furent arrives 

 a un endroit oil campait don Kodrigo Maldonado, les sentinelles donnereut ralarme." 



