. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . NiCOYAN TlCHliA (oTlA VaSE.ííatiüiuil Miisciiin (it CoHla llicu. (Iliot. íióinez.) CONQUEST OF COSTA RICA 43 gewgaws. Later, when the visitors had returnedto land, three more natives came aboard and sim-ilarty disposed of their mirrors. Amicable rela-. The Course Followed by Columbus. tions being thus established, the Spaniardslanded, and a large number of Indians presentedthemselves, headed by their cacique, or chief. 44 HISTORY OF DISCOVERY AND who, by way of example, was the first to barteraway his golden disk. From thence the Admiral
. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . NiCOYAN TlCHliA (oTlA VaSE.ííatiüiuil Miisciiin (it CoHla llicu. (Iliot. íióinez.) CONQUEST OF COSTA RICA 43 gewgaws. Later, when the visitors had returnedto land, three more natives came aboard and sim-ilarty disposed of their mirrors. Amicable rela-. The Course Followed by Columbus. tions being thus established, the Spaniardslanded, and a large number of Indians presentedthemselves, headed by their cacique, or chief. 44 HISTORY OF DISCOVERY AND who, by way of example, was the first to barteraway his golden disk. From thence the Admiral directed his coursetowards Cobraba, but, as the winds were notfavorable, made no stop, though he passed vari-ous villages, where the Indians assured himthere was much gold. The last of these wasVeragua, where he was told that the mirrorswere made. Passing on to Cubiga, however,which, according to the Cariay guides, markedthe end of the gold country that had its begin-ning in Zorobaro, he continued, alwaj^s along thecoast, until he arrived at the port of Retrete(now called Escribanos), which had been dis-covered two years before, in 1500, by Rodrigode Bastidas, coming in the opposite directionfrom that taken by the Admiral. And here be-cause no traces of gold were seen, he determinedto return towards
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