Note I‑2 — Chapter I · PIZARRO AND PERU. 1524-1544.
Reading edition
This letter picturing the horrors of the situation, and begging from the governor relief, was signed by the writer and his comrades; after which was a doggerel, current for years thereafter in the Indies, which ran as follows:
Pues señor gobernador, Mirelo bien por entero Que allá va el recogedor, Y acá queda el carnicero.
And may be rendered thus:
To this we hope your honor, Will lend a kindly ear; You have the herder with you, We have the butcher here.
In Balboa, Histoire du Pérou, Ternaux-Compans gives a French rendering by Beaudoin:
Monsieur le gouverneur, on s'en va vous chercher, Pour emmener des gens de la ville où vous estes. Envoyez-nous-en donc, car voícy le boucher Qui les esgorgera comme de pauvres bestes.