diversion, to which they all repair with greater inclination and pleasure.  To this end a bell is rung at the hour of vespers, and the children go forth through the streets of the place, bearing the cross, and singing the doctrine, and then, followed by their elders, they return to the church.  The adults, in the presence of the father, recite the prayers and catechism with great devotion and satisfaction, spending in all about half an hour.  This done, they return to their homes.  Mondays and Saturdays are likewise solemnized with masses, respectively for the deceased and in honor of our Lady, and are always attended by a certain number of people.  The young men are especially directed to attend these services that they may continue to practice Christian habits; upon these occasions some short sermon is preached them in their own language.  The children and old men are those who are under the strictest obligation to come to the church each day, at a certain hour, to learn the Christian doctrine—­the children, always; the old men, until they have learned the doctrine.  To each old man is assigned a boy, who instructs him and is careful to report how much the old man is learning; then, if the old man gives a good account of himself, he is privileged to cease his attendance, except with the rest of the people on Sundays.  The bell tolls the “Ave Maria” at dawn, at noon, and at night; and, besides this, some one is careful to go through the streets at night, sounding a little bell, and in a loud voice admonishing the people to offer prayers for the souls in purgatory and for those who are in a state of sin.  These, as well as other pious and devout customs, had been introduced into those villages.  Three handsome churches were erected, and adorned with images, tapestry, and beautiful ornaments.  We gained the good-will of those Indians to such a degree that, their opinion of us extending to their neighbors, even the savages who were hidden among the mountains came to us; and consequently those villages received much increase, as we shall soon see.  There was one of these newcomers in particular, very appropriately named Sayor, which means “robber” (and truly he was such in his deeds), who was a savage in his mode of life; without house or dwelling, he lived among the mountains and in caves—­even using as food, when he found no other game, the serpents that he killed.  Although somewhat advanced in years, he possessed incredible agility in running and leaping, the natural disposition and propensity of savage wild beasts.  The neighboring villages held this man in so great fear that, whenever he entered one of them, all the people fled from him as from a wild beast, believing him to be a violent madman; and by such compulsion he took, without any resistance, all that he desired from the houses.  I saw this man, who unexpectedly came toward me of his own accord; he was naked, his only covering being a wretched breech-cloth; he wore in his girdle a dagger,