Why should these children have been kidnapped on the eastern coast, and brought across the continent?
It is more likely that they belong to this side.

However, they could not be malefactors who have escaped into the forest, for their age forbids any idea of that kind.

They must have been stolen.

But I do not recall any such event as the carrying off of the sons of Spaniards, here, for many years back.
"However, this can be inquired into when they learn to speak our language well.

In the meantime, they had better be assigned quarters in the barracks.