I shall not relate the cruel and inhuman treatment of the agents, and the many Indians who died in the forest.

Had those galleons been of moderate size, and twice as many, they would not have cost one-half as much.

Neither shall I tell your Majesty of the Indians who were hanged, those who deserted their wives and children and fled exhausted to the mountains, and those sold as slaves to pay the taxes imposed on them; the scandal to the gospel, and the so irreparable wrongs caused by that shipbuilding; and with how great inhumanity they passed sentence on and executed on the poor Indian not only what was necessary, but also what the lawless greed of agents took from him.

In short, the hardships, injuries, and harm inflicted upon the Indians were vast, and there was no remedy for it.

And hence those ships had so disastrous an end; for all were wrecked in a storm, and all those in them were drowned forty leguas from the city--divine permission, which is so offended at injuries done to the poor, exacting those lives in order to make reparation for such wrongs.