I wish I had not read it.
I’d forgotten just how barbaric such tribes were back then.
But then, human being still are quite capable of treating each other in horrible ways.
The difference tween these Indians back then and MS13 gang members today, stemming from Guatamala, and now in parts of the USA, is that the MS13 gang members tend to hide from the law. The Indians of that place and of that time had nothing to flee from except the occassional Colonist, who carried weapons not known to these Indians.
Europeans were just as brutal. A lot better at toning down descriptions of their brutality though, since there weren’t outside observers recording the atrocities, but only fellow Europeans:
Esch, Voes, and Thorn, still held in custody, were questioned again by the ecclesiastical inquisition court, but they refused to recant. They were then handed over to the secular court and sentenced to death. They were taken to Brussels and held until the appointed day of execution on 1523 July 1. New attempts were made meanwhile to get them to renounce. Voes was brought first to the inquisitors, but he refused to recant. Esch also refused to renounce Lutheranism. Thorn asked for an additional four-day period to study the scriptures with respect to his views, and thus he was not executed then with Esch and Voes. Esch and Voes were summarily delivered to the executioner, brought to the marketplace in Brussels, and burned alive.