. The earth and its inhabitants ... five years of hardships and sangui-nary conflicts with the natives, in which he had lost four-fifths of his followers. 136 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES EEGIONS. Speier might perhaps have fared better had his lieutenant, Fredemann, obeyedorders by coming to his assistance en route. Instead of doing so, the desire tosecure the glory of the discovery for himself induced him to advance alone by adifferent track. Leaving the plains, he scaled the escarpments from the west,and thus reached the coveted goal, the rich land of the Muyscas, with its cities,t-emples, gems,
. The earth and its inhabitants ... five years of hardships and sangui-nary conflicts with the natives, in which he had lost four-fifths of his followers. 136 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES EEGIONS. Speier might perhaps have fared better had his lieutenant, Fredemann, obeyedorders by coming to his assistance en route. Instead of doing so, the desire tosecure the glory of the discovery for himself induced him to advance alone by adifferent track. Leaving the plains, he scaled the escarpments from the west,and thus reached the coveted goal, the rich land of the Muyscas, with its cities,t-emples, gems, and precious metals. But Fredemann had himself been forestalled,and on his arrival he found the plateau already in possession of other Europeans,who had come from quite an opposite quarter. Belalcazar, properly Benalcazar, Pizarros lieutenant in Quito, aspiring toextend his conquests in the direction of the north, and acting on the information Fig. 50. —Chief Exploeing Expeditions in Venezuela and Colombia,Scale 1 : 24,000, Si. = = Sievei = = Fernandez. Rob. = — -St. =- Reiss and — Whymper. Col. = = = = Chaffanjon. 620 Miles. received from the Peruvians of Quito, had sent forward a certain Juan deAmpudia, a ferocious adventurer, described in the quaint language of the chronicleras causing the same effects as lightning and quicksilver. Like the latter heattracted all the precious metals that he found in the houses ; like the former heburnt and reduced to ashes the houses themselves as well as the cultivated his way by fire and sword to the banks of the Cauca, he here foundeda city early in 1536 to which he gave his own name. But the rising colonywas soon after removed by Belalcazar to the spot now occupied by Cali, politicaland commercial centre of the district. Returning to the south, Belalcazar CONaUEST OF COLOMBIA. 137 transformed the Indian city of
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