The weight and burthen of initiating the _Indians_ into the Christian Faith lay solely on the _Spaniards_ at first; and therefore _Joannes Colmenero_ in _Santa Martha_, a Fantastic, Ignorant, and Foppish Fellow, was under Examination before us (and he had one of the most spatious Cities committed to his Charge as well as the Care and Cure of the Souls of the Inhabitants) whether he understood how to fortifie himself with the sign of the Cross against the Wicked and Impious, and being interrogated what he taught, and how he instructed the _Indians_, whose Souls were intrusted to his Care and Conduct; he return'd this Answer, _That if he damn'd them to the Devil and Furies of Hell, it was sufficient to retrieve them, if he pronounced these Words,_ Per Signin Sanctin Cruces. A Fellow fitter to be a Hogherd than a Shepherd of Souls. This Deep, Bloody _American_ Tragedy is now concluded, and my Pen choakt up with _Indian_ Blood and Gore. I have no more to say, but pronounce the Epilogue made by the Author, and leave the Reader to judge whether it deserves a Plaudite. The _Spaniards_ first set Sail to _America_, not for the Honour of God, or as Persons moved and merited thereunto by servent Zeal to the True Faith, nor to promote the Salvation of their Neighbours, nor to serve the King, as they falsely boast and pretend to do, but in truth, only stimulated and goaded on by insatiable Avarice and Ambition, that they might for ever Domineer, Command, and Tyrannize over the _West- Indians_, whose Kingdoms they hoped to divide and distribute among themselves. Which to deal candidly in no more or less intentionally, than by all these indirect wayes to disappoint and expel the Kings of _Castile_ out of those Dominions and Territories, that they themselves having usurped the Supreme and Regal Empire, might first challenge it as their Right, and then possess and enjoy it. FINIS.