_ at his own pleasure, to the end (as it was reported)
he might violently force the _Indians_ away from such as did infest or
molest him; and dispose of them to others; upon which it fell out, that
for the space of a Year complete, there was no sowing or planting: And
when they wanted Bread, the _Spaniards_ did by force plunder the
_Indians_ of the whole stock of Corn that they had laid up for the
support of their Families, and by these indirect Courses above Thirty
Thousand perished with Hunger. Nay it fortun'd at one time, that a
Woman opprest with insufferable Hunger, depriv'd her own Son of his
Life to preserve her own.

In this Province also they brought many to an untimely End, loading
their Shoulders with heavy planks and pieces of Timer, which they were
compell'd to carry to a Haven Forty Miles distant, in order to their
building of Ships; sending them likewise unto the Mountains to find out
Hony and Wax, where they were devour'd by Tygers; nay they loaded Women
impregnated with Carriage and Burthens fit for beasts.

But no greater pest was there that could unpeople this Province, than
the License granted the _Spaniards_ by this Governour, to demand
Captives from the _Casics_ and Potentates of this Region; for at the
Expiration of Four or Five Months, or as often as they obtain'd leave
of the Governour to demand them, they deliver'd them up Fifty Servants,
and the _Spaniards_ terrified them with Menaces, that if they did not
obey them in answering their unreasonable Demands, they should be burnt
alive, or baited to Death by Dogs. Now the _Indians_ are but slenderly
stor'd with Servants; for it is much if a _Casic_ hath Three or Four in
his Retinue, therefore they have recourse to the Subjects; and when
they had, in the first place, seized the Orphans, they required
earnestly and instantly one Son of the Parent, who had but Two, and Two
of him that had but Three, and for the Lord of the place satisfied the
desires of the Tyrant, not without the Effusion of Tears and Groans of
the People, who (as it seems) were very careful of their Children. And
this being frequently repeated in the space between the Year 1523, and
1533, the Kingdom lost all their Inhabitants, for in Six or Seven Years
time there were constantly Five or Six Ships made ready to be fraighted
with _Indians_ that were sold in the Regions of _Panama_ and
_Perusium_, where they all dyed; for it is by dayly Experience prov'd
and known, that the _Ind