. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . f was to follow his emis-sary by way of Nicoj^a, where Hurtado andHernando de Soto were to join him. On theway he learned that Estete had succeeded with-out disturbance in imprisoning the rebelliouslieutenant in the latters own fortress at had barely arrived in that city beforehe ordered his Alcalde mayor, Diego de Molina,to summon Fernández de Cordova to give an ac-count of his administration. Having meanwhilereceived news that Pedro de Alvarado was inChorotega Malalacá,* he hastened to remove hisprisoner to León, and,
. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . f was to follow his emis-sary by way of Nicoj^a, where Hurtado andHernando de Soto were to join him. On theway he learned that Estete had succeeded with-out disturbance in imprisoning the rebelliouslieutenant in the latters own fortress at had barely arrived in that city beforehe ordered his Alcalde mayor, Diego de Molina,to summon Fernández de Cordova to give an ac-count of his administration. Having meanwhilereceived news that Pedro de Alvarado was inChorotega Malalacá,* he hastened to remove hisprisoner to León, and, arming all the availablesoldiers, sent them, under the command of Her-nán Ponce de León, Andrés Garabito and Fran-cisco Campañón, against Cortés doughty cap-tain, to contest his advance upon Nicaragua. But at. this stage Cortés and Alvarado, who, * Under the Spanish colonial regime, the veedor was the over-seer or inspector of prisons, exercising functions similar tothose of sheriff in the United States. Translator. * Choluteca, in ])()N ]KI>It(> l)i; ), Ct)N<.irKKOIl UF (i lATEM a i)aintin^ in tbo Archives of the Indies at Heville. CONQUEST OF COSTA RICA 101 it appears, had a secret understanding with Fer-nández de Cordova, were forced to return toMexico, which had broken out in revolt in theabsence of the Conqueror. Thus Pedrarias, re-heved of the fears that been inspired by thenearness of such awesome rivals, was left in freetranquillity to satisfy his vengeance. He de-stroyed Fernández de Cordova as he had de-stroyed Vasco Núñez de Balboa. Although then, by order of Pedrarias, thetown of Bruselas was repeopled by CaptainGonzalo de Badajoz in 1526, and the Indians ofthe neighborhood parceled out anew among theinhabitants, this second attempt was fated tohave no better result than the first. For, in thegovernment of Castilla del Oro, Pedrarias wassuperseded by Pedro de los Ríos, and had to re-turn to Panama to respond to th
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