256 DOTTING,S ON THE ROADSIDE. [Chap. XV.—B. P. 
todo el universo en lugar de Dios, y que el ayia feclio 
merced de aquella tierra al rey de Castilla; dixeron 
que el Papa debiera estar boracho quando lo hizo, 
pues daba lo que no era suyo, y que el rey que pedia 
y tomava tarn merced dabia ser algun loco, pues pedia 
lo que era de otros,” etc.* 
Tbe following is a free translation of the above :— 
They replied to me that as to the assertion that there 
was but one God, the sovereign of heaven and earth, 
it seemed to them good, and that such must be the 
case ; but as to the doctrine that the Pope was Regent 
of the World in place of God, and that he had made a 
grant of their country to the Spanish King; they ob¬ 
served that the Pope must have been drunk to give 
away what was not his, and the King must have been 
somewhat mad to ask at his hands what belonged to 
others. 
They added that they were lords of those lands and 
needed no other sovereign, and if this King should 
come to take possession, they would cut off his head 
and put it on a pole, that being their mode of dealing 
with their enemies. 
* 4 Columbus and liis Companions,’ by Washington Irving, vol. vii. 
p. 681 . 
