persons in that day.
34. From the province of Lili, he sent the said captain, Juan de
Ampudia, with many people to the place and dwellings of Lili, in
order to capture all the Indians, men and women, that he could, for
carrying the packs; because all the numerous people he had brought
from Anzerma, had already died. And the said Juan de Ampudia
brought more than a thousand persons, many of whom he killed.
35. The said captain took all the people he needed, giving the rest to
the soldiers, who at once put them in chains, where they all died:
after depriving the said country of the Spaniards, and of the
natives in such great numbers, as is seen by the few that are left,
he set out for Popayan.
36. On the way he left behind a live Spaniard, whose name was Martin de
Aguirre, because he could not walk as much as the healthy ones. On
his arrival at Popayan he dwelt in that town, and began to destroy,
and rob the Indians of the surrounding country, with the same
disorder as he had done in the others.
37. He made a royal stamp here and melted all the gold he had gathered,
and that Juan de Ampudia had gathered before he came; and without
any accounting or explanation, and without giving any part to any
soldier, he took it all for himself, except that he gave what he
chose to some whose horses were dead. This done, and after taking
the fifths of His Majesty he said he was going to Cuzco to report to
his Governor; so he set out for Quito, taking a great number of
Indians, men, and women, all of whom died on the journey and in that
place. And further the said captain returned to destroy the royal
stamp he had made.
38. It is well at this point to relate a word that this man said of
himself, showing that he very well knew the evil and cruelty that he
did. He spoke thus: "In fifty years, those that pass by here and
hear of these things, will say: 'It was here that the tyrant so and
so marched.' "
39. These in-comings and out-goings of this captain in those kingdoms,
and this way of visiting those people living safely in their
country, and these operations practised by him against them, Your
Highness should know and be convinced, have always been done by the
Spaniards everywhere in the same way, from the discovery of the
Indies till t