During all these months, one young indigenous man had been listening to all that was said with particular fascination and horror. His name was Paquiquineo, though he was more often called by his Spanish name “don Luis de Velasco”—after his godfather, who had been the viceroy himself. He was an Indian from the Chesapeake Bay, in the far north (a kinsman of Powhatan, father of Pocahontas). He now lived with the church artisans who worked for the Dominicans, among them Juan Ahuach, the angry painter. In 1560, he had been kidnapped from his homeland when he and another companion boarded a Spanish
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