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towns to a treaty of peace. Some acceded to his propofals, but others 

 negleded to attend. With the latter he difTimulated, thinking it beft 

 not to notice their contumacy, and wrote to Cortes giving a full account 

 of what he had done, and defiring to know how the prifoners (hould 

 be difpofed of. Cortes on receiving thefe fatisfaclory accounts appoint- 

 ed Sandoval to fucceed Vallejo, as commandant at St. Eftevan, and in- 

 formed him, that for the fake of jufl:ice, and to prevent future mifchief, 

 it was necelTary to punifh with death thofe who had been any way con- 

 cerned in, or who had abetted the murders of Spaniards, and he gave 

 diredtions to the alcalde Diego de Ocampo, to take the neceflary fteps 

 againft them, with orders to execute fuch as fliould be legally condemn- 

 ed. He gave orders that every neccflary meafure alfo fhould be taken 

 to conciliate the natives of that province, and that proper fleps fhould be 

 adopted to prevent any future outrages on the part of Garay's troops. 

 Thefe letters, the contents of which were highly fatisfadory to Sando- 

 val having reached him, he proceeded conjointly with Ocampo to put 

 the orders of Cortes into execution. In two days after their receipt they 

 proceeded to the trial of thofe caciques who were accufed, and many be- 

 ing found guilty by evidence, or their own confeflion, were put to death. 

 Some were burnt and others hanged; many alfo were pardoned, and 

 the diftridls were given to the children and heirs of fuch as fuffered. 

 Thefe a6ls of juftice being done, Ocampo in compliance with the far- 

 ther inftrudtions he had received from Ccwtes, proceeded againft all thofe 

 Spaniards who had committed outrages, robberies, or murders; or who, 

 going through the country in bands, had invited other foldiers to defert 

 to them ; and having feized and colledted together thefe public diftur- 

 bers, he caufed them to embark for the Ifland of Cuba. To Juan de 

 Grijalva Cortes offered the alternative of accepting a prefent of two 

 thoufand crowns, and a pafTage to Cuba, or if he preferred flaying in 

 the country, an honorable reception at Mexico; Grijalva and all the 

 Qthers were anxious however to return and accordingly they fet fail for 

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