. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . s, and to explore all the coast of theprovince along the Atlantic from the San JuanRiver to the Province of Veragua, and from Ni-coya to the same Province of Veragua on thePacific side; also to take possession of these ter-ritories in the name of the King and reduce themto allegiance, to people three cities in CostaRica—one at the Bocas del Drago, or AlmiranteBay, another in the valley of the Guarco, in theinterior of the country, and the third in Garabito,on the Pacific slope. He further undertook tobring into the province one thousand c
. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . s, and to explore all the coast of theprovince along the Atlantic from the San JuanRiver to the Province of Veragua, and from Ni-coya to the same Province of Veragua on thePacific side; also to take possession of these ter-ritories in the name of the King and reduce themto allegiance, to people three cities in CostaRica—one at the Bocas del Drago, or AlmiranteBay, another in the valley of the Guarco, in theinterior of the country, and the third in Garabito,on the Pacific slope. He further undertook tobring into the province one thousand cows, fifteenhundred female sheep, five hundred pigs andgoats and a thousand horses and mares within aperiod of three years.® As this enterprise to which Captain Artiedaproposed to devote himself was not only difficultbut costly, it is more than probable that the nec-essary funds for carrying it through were sup-plied him, at least in part, by one of those com-panies which at the time had been formed for León Fernández—Documentos, Vol. V, p. Antonio \, Ií.\st Kixii oh T.\\man(a. CONQUEST OF COSTA RICA 307 such purposes and in which the members of theCouncil of the Indies were reputed to have beeninterested, since they were in a position to securethe most accurate information concerning suchaffairs. Artieda sailed from the Port of San Lucar deBarrameda on the 15th of April, with two shipsand a tender, having more than fulfilled the con-ditions imposed by his capitulación. He was ac-companied by three hundred and thirty-fivepersons, including men, women and these were several nobles and officers,various relatives of Artieda, a Bachelor of Arts,and two lawyers, one a son of a judge of the Com-mission on Conmierce of the Indies (Ca^a deContratación de las Indias) .^^ Anchor wasdropped at the island of Española, where sev-eral of the company deserted; thence he pro-ceeded on his voyage, laying his course towardTierra Firme. The principal obje
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