Lesson 8 logo is Father Las Casas

Enriquillo went to complain of his mistreatment to the governor's lieutenant who lived in that village, by name Pedro de Vadillo. He found in Vadillo that comfort that the Indians always found in matters of justice at the hands of the ministers of the king. Vadillo threatened him, warning him what would happen and what he would do to Enriquillo if he returned with any more complaints against Valenzuela: he told Enriquillo that he would throw him in jail or in the stocks. After he was let go with no satisfaction at the hands of this minister of justice, the saddened Enriquillo decided to come to this city of Santo Domingo to complain to the Audiencia of the injuries and insults which he had received. But he was very poor, tired and hungry, and had no money to remedy his situation.

The head of the Audiencia gave Enriquillo his sympathy, but he sent him back to the aforementioned lieutenant Vadillo with no other recourse; and this too was the consolation which the Audiencias and even the king's Counselor, who resides in Castille, give to the injured and the miserable: to send them back, one should realize, to the very people they had complained about, back to their own enemies.