. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . fthe missionaries, this is the sole relic preserved. This terrible disaster caused widespread griefthroughout the Province of Costa Rica. Withone voice the citizens demanded that exemplarypunishment be administered. But as there wasa lack of military essentials for such an under-taking, the Governor, Don Lorenzo de Granday Balbín, sought assistance from the Audienciaat Guatemala. To help the Governor in hisneed, the Audiencia forwarded to Cartagoseventy-five firearms, one hundred steel arms,eight himdred pounds of powder, four thousandbul
. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . fthe missionaries, this is the sole relic preserved. This terrible disaster caused widespread griefthroughout the Province of Costa Rica. Withone voice the citizens demanded that exemplarypunishment be administered. But as there wasa lack of military essentials for such an under-taking, the Governor, Don Lorenzo de Granday Balbín, sought assistance from the Audienciaat Guatemala. To help the Governor in hisneed, the Audiencia forwarded to Cartagoseventy-five firearms, one hundred steel arms,eight himdred pounds of powder, four thousandbullets and four thousand pesos. With this ma-terial aid, the Governor organized a force oftwo hundred men and resolved to attack Tala-manca on two sides. In the beginning of Feb-ruary, 1710, he sallied forth from Cartago withFray Antonio de Andrade and one hundred andtwenty soldiers, directing his course towardsBoruca, on the Pacific side, where, on his arrival,he established his headquarters. The other force,composed of eighty men under the command of. OS». S a 5 ^i CONQUEST OF COSTA RICA 383 the Master of Camp, Don José de Casasola yCordoba, marched directly upon Talamanca overthe Chirripó road. From Boruca the Governor caused the In-dians of the district to open a path through toViceita, and, passing over the Cordillera, finallyreached that place, where the Indians had re-mained faithful to the Spanish. From Viceitahe went on to Cabecar, where he was joined byCasasola y Córdoba. With the juncture of thetwo forces, general headquarters were estab-lished at Cabecar. Numerous sorties were madeinto the rebel country and seven hundredIndians were captured. Several chiefs of theinsurrection also fell into their hands as pris-oners, among them the cacique Presbere, whowas surrendered by the Viceitas. The caciqueComezalá and several others managed to maketheir escape. The Spaniards returned with theirprisoners, but of these only five hundred arrivedat Cartago, for on the road tw
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