. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . When he returned to the otherboats, he found that many of his company haddied from their hardships, and that the ten mensent out in quest of Machuca had not returned;so, in order that he might be in readiness for anemergency, he had the mast and sails removedfrom the smaller barkentine and transferred tothe larger, and then, having called together thefew followers remaining to him, addressed themas follows: My brothers, I am now convincedthat we are on the North Sea (Atlantic Ocean),and that the best port to make for in order tosave our l
. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . When he returned to the otherboats, he found that many of his company haddied from their hardships, and that the ten mensent out in quest of Machuca had not returned;so, in order that he might be in readiness for anemergency, he had the mast and sails removedfrom the smaller barkentine and transferred tothe larger, and then, having called together thefew followers remaining to him, addressed themas follows: My brothers, I am now convincedthat we are on the North Sea (Atlantic Ocean),and that the best port to make for in order tosave our lives is Nombre de Dios, which I findto be but eighty leagues distant; for we nolonger have the arms to row with for the returnby way of the Nicaragua River, nor the feet withwhich to walk should we try to go back by us, then, put to sea and commit ourselves toPeralta, ibid., p. 740. isá HISTORY OF DISCOVERY AND the winds that God may send us. By no othermeans can we reach a place of safety. Itiner»ary orALONSO CALERO OFDEGO MACHUCADE ZUAZO. It was words such as these, Roman in theirsimplicity, that were used by these extraordinarymen. History has not always accorded them thejustice they merit. In many cases, their ex-ploits have remained long years unknown.^* The details in connection with the discovery of the SanJuan River by Alonso Calero and Diego Machuca de Zuazo CONQUEST OF COSTA RICA 133 After this, with the consent of his companions,the Captain gave the order to hoist sail, and arun of a day and a half brought the barkentineand fragata to the mouth of the San Juan, wherethey took on some water, though for lack ofcasks they were able to ship but a small terrible, indeed, at length became their thirst,that two of the Spaniards died from drinkingsalt water. Yet, under the direction of Calero,who himself acted as pilot, the vessels still pur-sued their course and at the end of two days hadsucceeded in making the Islands of Zorobaró.On one of them the wr
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