Canoe crew tell Bobadilla seven Spaniards were hanged that week
They arrived, then, in their canoe, the three, and asking who came in the caravels, and whether Don Diego came, the commander Bobadilla appeared, who came in the caravel Gorda, and said that he came sent by the Sovereigns as pesquisidor over those who went about risen in this island; the master of the caravel Gorda, who was called Andrés Martin de la Gorda, asked them for news of the land, they answered that that week they had hanged seven Spanish men, and that in the fortress here five others were held to be hanged, and these were Don Hernando de Guevara and Pedro Riquelme, and three others, all of them of the risen. The commander Bobadilla asked those in the canoe whether the Admiral was here, and his brothers; they said no, only Don Diego, and the Admiral had gone to the Vega or Concepcion, and the Adelantado to the province of Xaraguá after those who went about risen, to seize them, and with the purpose of hanging each one wherever they should find him, for which they took a cleric to confess them. …