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176 j C H A P T E R E I G H T Y How They Put Everyone Not of Their Opinion on the Rack Tofurthertheircause,theycruellytorturedmanyotherpersons to find out if they had been given orders and then conspired among themselves to free the Governor from prison. Who were these people, and in what way had they been plotting? Had they been mining away under the prison? Quite a few people were maimed or crippled in arm and leg from these sessions on the rack. In certain sections of the town, people wrote on the walls, By your king and your law you will die. 1 Domingo de Irala and his officials and constables asked about to discover who had written this, swearing and threatening that if they found out who was scribbling the words they would surely punish him. And so they did indeed take a lot of people prisoner, and put them on the rack. ...

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