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entirely, and a Jinen cloth which, they double closely about the head, 

 tying it in front. They are very laborious and very domestic after 

 their fashion. These people style themselves Christians, and mass is 

 said amongst them, their ritual being according to that of the Eoman 

 Church. I^early all their churches, monasteries, and hermitages have 

 been pulled down by the English garrisons and the natives who have 

 joined them, and who are just as bad as the English, so that finally, 

 in this kingdom, there is no justice or reason, since that everyone does 

 according to his will. As for us, these savages (salvajes) liked us 

 well; because they know that we come to fight the heretics, and 

 whose greatest enemies they know us to be ; indeed were it not for 

 these natives (salvajes) who watched over us as over their own 

 persons, not one of us would have survived. On this account we bore 

 them goodwill, even although they were the first to rob and stiip 

 naked those of us who succeeded in reaching land, from whom, as 

 well as from those of the thirteen ships of our Armada, on board 

 which were so many persons of mark, and all of whom were drowned. 

 These savages (salvajes) acquired much wealth in jewellery and 

 coined money. A report of this, indeed, reached the ears of the great 

 governor of the queen, then residing in the city of Dublin, and he 

 soon set out with some 1700 soldiers in search of the ships which 

 were lost, and of the people that had been saved from them. Of these 

 there were somewhat less than 1000 men in all, unarmed, and 

 naked, wandering about the different localities where the ships had 

 been wrecked. These fugitives for the most part the governor caught, 

 and at once proceeded to hang and otherwise subject them to punish- 

 ments. As to those who, he learned, were succouring our people, he 

 imprisoned them, and infiicted every evil he could on them, he even 

 seized two or three native lords who held castles in which they had 

 given shelter to some Spaniards, these he seized, the natives as well 

 as the Spaniards, and travelled with them along the coast until he 

 reached the point where I was wrecked, and from that he turned in 

 the direction of the Castle of Manglana, such being the title of the 

 native (salvaje) with whom I then was, and who had been the con- 

 stant and bitter enemy of the queen, having no love for anything 

 belonging to her, and never having yielded her obedience. On this 

 account the governor anxiously desired to make him prisoner, and the 

 native (salvaje) seeing the great force that was being brought against 

 him, and that he could not resist it, resolved on flying to the 

 mountains, which was for him the only chance of safety. We, the 

 Spaniards who were with him, soon learned the trouble that was 



