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ments of cavalry and a white flag, to hear their com- 

 plaints ; but while conferring with the insurgents they 

 were surrounded, and almost all of them cut to pieces. 

 The number of the disaffected increased to more than a 

 thousand, and Galvez sent against them six hundred 

 troops, who routed them, plundered and burned their 

 villages, and, among other excesses, the last outrage 

 was perpetrated upon Carrera's wife. Roused to fury 

 by this personal wrong, he joined with several chiefs of 

 villages, vowing never to lay down his arms while an 

 officer of Morazan remained in the state. With a few 

 infuriated followers he went from village to village, 

 killing the judges and government officers, when pur- 

 sued escaping to the mountains, begging tortillas at the 

 haciendas for his men, and sparing and protecting 9,11 

 who assisted him. At this time he could neither read 

 nor write ; but, urged on and assisted by some priests, 

 particularly one Padre Lobo, a notorious profligate, he 

 issued a proclamation, having his name stamped at the 

 foot of it, against strangers and the government, for at- 

 tempting to poison the Indians, demanding the destruc- 

 tion of all foreigners excepting the Spaniards, the abo- 

 lition of the Livingston Code, a recall of the archbishop 

 and friars, the expulsion of heretics, and a restora- 

 tion of the privileges of the Church and old usages 

 and customs. His fame spread as a highwayman and 

 murderer ; the roads about Guatimala were unsafe ; all 

 travelling was broken up ; the merchants were thrown 

 into consternation by intelligence that the whole of the 

 goods sent to the fair at Esquipulas had fallen into his 

 hands (which, however, proved untrue) ; and very soon 

 he became so strong that he attacked villages and even 

 towns. • 



The reader will bear in mind that this was in the 



