hour's distance Vasquez was in a great hurry to reach the station. Three of the Indian men who were weak through hunger and not able to walk fast could not keep up with them, so Vasquez himself shot one and he ordered Cherey, the _muchacho_, to shoot the other two. These were all grown-up men, Boras Indians, and belonging to Gavilanes, and were part of Katenere's people. The three bodies were left lying there on the path, and the place where they were killed was so near Morelia that when they reached it they learned that the station hands had heard the shots of the rifles that had killed the men. "They reached Morelia in the evening, and of their five prisoners three were put with their feet in the _cepo_, while the fourth was hung up by his neck with a chain round it. The chain was pulled taut over a beam in the roof of the house, so that the man's toes rested on the ground, but he could not budge or even move his head. He had to stand like this with his head and neck stretched up all night. Those in the _cepo_, two men and a woman, also had chains round their necks. They got no food." Evidence confirmatory of James Chase's statement with regard to this expedition of Vasquez was subsequently obtained by the Consul-General from other quarters. The Report continues:-- "Allan Davis, a Barbados man who was in Abisinia when Vasquez arrived there, stated in his examination that Vasquez declared on arrival 'he had left the road pretty.' Davis saw him arrive with the emaciated prisoners, who were put in stocks, and all of whom subsequently met their deaths in Abisinia, as averred by Davis and Evelyn Baston, another Barbados man, whose testimony was subsequently taken. One of them was murdered by being shot, and the others were deliberately starved to death while confined in the stocks. "Asked if he had seen women thus killed, he replied, 'Yes. They were shot and died from blows' (from floggings). They were cut to pieces sometimes and smelt dreadfully. Once he himself was put in _cepo_ alongside some of these rotting human beings who had been inhumanly flogged, and the smell was so bad he begged and implored to be taken out--he could not stand it--but Fonseca kept him in all night. He saw these people die from these floggings; their bodies would sometimes be dragged away and thrown in the bush around the station or burned. He has seen the _muchachos_ shoot Indians under the order of Fonseca. Continual floggings went on at that time among women and children.