large town and, without calling
the Indians pacifically, nor sending interpreters to summon them,
they made cruel war on them, and persecuted them, and killed great
numbers of them. And as soon as they joined one another as has been
said, the aforenamed Ampudia told the captain what he had done at
Bitacon, and how he had thrown so many people into the pits; and the
said captain replied that he had done very well; and that he himself
had done the same at Riobamba, which is in the province of Quito,
where he threw more than two hundred persons into the pits; both
stayed here, making war throughout the country.
30. After this he entered the province of Biru or Anzerma, making cruel
war of fire and blood, from this province to the salt ponds. From
there he sent Francisco Garcia Tobar forward, making cruel war on
the natives as is told above; and the Indians went to him two by
two, making signs that they sought peace in the name of all the
country, and asking what the Spaniards wished; for if they wanted
gold or women or provisions, they should be given them, and begging
that they should not be killed in this way: and this the Spaniards
themselves have confessed to be true.
31. And the said Francisco Garcia told them to go away, that they were
drunk, and that he did not understand them, after which he returned
to where the said captain was and they set out to march through all
the province, making most cruel war on the natives, plundering and
killing them; and more than two thousand souls were carried off from
there between him and his soldiers, all of whom died in chains.
32. Before they left the inhabited country, they killed more than five
hundred persons. Thus he returned to the province of Calili; and if
on the way some Indian, man or woman, became so tired that he could
not walk, they stabbed him; if he was in chains they cut off his
head, so as not to undo them and so that the others seeing this,
should not feign being ill.
33. In this way they all died, and on this journey all the people he had
brought from Quito, Pasto, Quilla, Cagua, Paria, Popayan, Lili,
Cali, and Anzerma, perished in very great numbers. On his return
march, as soon as he entered the large town, they killed all they
could. And they captured three hundred