. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . lage of San Francisco de Térraba in 1689,and in 1744 established the village of Cabagra,four leagues distant from the first villages they peopled with the Terbis In-dians of Talamanca, but, as those who consentedto follow them voluntarily were few in number,it was determined to resort to coercive was the motive for the excursion made intothat territory in April, 1747, by the Master ofCamp, Don Francisco Fernández de la Pastora,at the head of the missionaries and a force offorty-five soldiers. They proceeded as fa
. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . lage of San Francisco de Térraba in 1689,and in 1744 established the village of Cabagra,four leagues distant from the first villages they peopled with the Terbis In-dians of Talamanca, but, as those who consentedto follow them voluntarily were few in number,it was determined to resort to coercive was the motive for the excursion made intothat territory in April, 1747, by the Master ofCamp, Don Francisco Fernández de la Pastora,at the head of the missionaries and a force offorty-five soldiers. They proceeded as far asCabecar and returned with one hundred andtwenty-three Indian prisoners. Brigadier Fernández de Heredia lent hisaid to this expedition as well as that whichset out in 1748, with fifty men under thecommand of the same Master of Camp, andmarched into Talamanca over the Chirripóroad, while another command numbering fiftymen, under the leadership of Pedro Rod-riguez, went to Boruca. At the village ofTérraba the latter joined the missionaries Murga. Slí.\ i:i{ Ü (IF AXCIHNT CnURCH OF FuANCISCODK TÍ:KRAI! V. Now ¡ ¡M llie Episcopal Museum of Sim .luso ilu (usía lílca.(Photo. Gómez.) CONQUEST OF COSTA RICA 391 and Mendijur, and, accompanied by Christian-ized Indians of that place, Boruca and Cabagra,crossed the Cordillera as Governor Granda yBalbín had done in 1710. They arrived in thecountry of the Terbis and were met by the re-fusal of those Indians to unite with the expedi-tion for fear of their enemies, the Viceitas, overwhose lands they would have to pass in order toreach Cabécar. The Padre Mendijur, therefore,returned to San Francisco de Térraba with theIndian auxiliaries and a few Terbis prisoners,while Rodriguez continued his march, passingthrough Viceita and Coen to Cabécar, where hecame up with Fernández de la Pastora. Thelatter, informed of what had taken place in con-nection with the Terbis and Viceitas, despatcheda courier to
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