of mares thresh out the corn. No sooner did it see the father than it
attacked him. The father gave it a slight lance-thrust in the skin,
but the point, turning, entered no farther than the very outside. The
dog remained true, and held the boar by one leg; but the boar did not
discontinue to strike at the father with great fury. But the blows
that it thus gave him were received in his habit, which he endured
until the arrival of the Indians, with whose aid they killed that
savage animal. Brother Fray Andrés Garcia assured me that he had
never seen anything so terrible looking in España, Italia, or any
place. Many other things happened to the father, which might make a
long history, but do not apply to the matter in hand.

He was much loved by the Indians, for he rendered free and open aid
to them, so far as he was able.




CHAPTER XXXVIII

_Of the election of our father Fray Juan Enríquez_


Our father Fray Alonso de Baraona, in the course of his government,
as a person who so well understood the province and its members,
thought that no one was better fitted to govern it than our father
Fray Juan Enríquez, then the senior definitor. Concerning him, I have
not said much of what was seen, and the troubles which he suffered,
on the occasion of the unhappy death of our father Fray Vicente. We
were made to see how unjust that was, for our Lord freed him from