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Chap. XV.—B. P.] A CACIQUE’S IDEA OP THE POPE. 
servitude, and in the enjoyment of all you possess, in 
the same manner as the inhabitants of the islands. 
Besides this, his Majesty will bestow upon you many 
privileges, exemptions, and rewards. But if you will 
not comply, or maliciously delay to obey my injunc¬ 
tion, then, with the help of Grod, I will enter your 
country by force; I will carry on war against you 
with the utmost violence; I will subject you to the 
yoke of obedience to the Church and King; I will 
take your wives and children, and will make them 
slaves, and sell or dispose of them according to his 
Majesty’s pleasure; I will seize your goods, and do 
you all the mischief in my power, as rebellious sub¬ 
jects, who will not acknowledge or submit to their 
lawful Sovereign. And I protest that all the blood¬ 
shed and calamities which shall follow are to he im¬ 
puted to you, and not to his Majesty, or to me, or the 
gentlemen who serve under me; and as I have now 
made this declaration and requisition unto you, I re¬ 
quire the notary here present to grant me a certificate 
of this, subscribed in proper form.” 
This extraordinary document was always gravely 
read whether the assemblage was “ large and respect¬ 
able,” or the contrary; on one occasion the following 
reply was made, as related by an eye-witness, the 
Bachelor Enciso, in a geographical work called ‘ Suma 
de Greograpliia,’ published in Seville (1519) :— 
“ Bespondieron me: que en lo quo dezia que no 
avia sino un Dios y que este governaba el cielo y tierra, 
y que era senorde todo que es parecia y querist dehia 
ser; pero que en lo que dezia que el Papa era senor de 
