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ther judged so insupportable. A dissension thus 
arose between the father and son, which was foment- 
ed by Panso Aquitimo, another brother, who had, 
from the first, shewn himself an enemy to the 
new faith. He and his emissaries studiously col- 
lected every report which could embitter the mind 
of the king against his heir apparent. They as- 
sured him that, by the power of Fetiches, taught 
him by the Christians, Alfonso came every night 
from his residence at^ Cabo de Reyno, eighty 
leagues distant, carried thither one of the king's 
wives, and conveyed her back in the morning. 
They added, that, by the same power, he dried 
up the rivers, and injured the fruits of the earth, 
that the king's territories might not yield their 
usual revenue. These atrocities moved the mo- 
narch to such indignation, that he withdrew the 
revenue which had been allotted to the prince, and 
even took measures against his life. Some of Al- 
fonso's friends, however, endeavoured to make him 
sensible of the injustice of these suspicions, and 
even proposed a plan for putting them to the test. 
A person was employed to wait secretly upon one 
of the principal wives, carrying & fetiche wrapt up 
in a cloth. This, he pretended, was sent by Don 
Alfonso, to protect her and her companions from 
the punishment of death, meditated by the king, 
on account of their nocturnal flights to Cabo del 
Reyno. The princess indignantly rejected the 
