until halberdiers of the Governor put an end to him. Another got up, with a lance, into a maize crib made of cane which is called barbacoa by Indians. He defended the entrance with the uproar of ten men until he was stricken down with a battle-axe.

They who were subdued may have been in all 200 men. Some of the youngest the Governor gave to those who had good chains and were vigilant. All the rest were ordered to execution. Being bound to a post in the middle of the town yard, they were shot to death with arrows by the people of Paracoxi.

On the 23rd day of September the Governor left Napetaca and went to rest at a river where two Indians brought him a deer from the cacique of Uzachil. The next day, having passed through a large town called Hapaluya, he slept at Uzachil. He found no person there because the inhabitants, in-formed of the deaths at Napetaca, dared not re-main. In the town was found their food, much maize, beans and pumpkins on which the Christians lived. The maize is like coarse millet. The pumpkins are better and more savoury than those of Spain.

Two captains having been sent in opposite directions in quest of Indians, a hundred men and women were taken. One or two were chosen out for the Governor, as was always customary for officers to do after successful inroads. The others were divided among themselves and companions. The Indians were led off in chains with collars about the neck to carry luggage and grind corn, doing the labor proper to servants.

Sometimes it happened that going with their master for wood or maize they would kill the Christian and flee with the chain on, which others would file at night with a splinter of stone. When caught at this work they were punished as a warning to others that they might not do the like. The women and youths when removed a hundred leagues from their country no longer cared. They were taken along loose to do the work, and in a very little time learned the Spanish language.

From Uzachil the Governor went towards Apalache. At the end of two days' travel he arrived at a town called Axille. After that, the Indians having no knowledge of the Christians, they were come upon unawares. The greater part escaped, nevertheless, because there were woods near town.