The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . COiMTEnPORARY MAR SHOVING POSSESSIONS OF THE VELSERCOnPANY IN SOUTH AHERICA. (ORIGlfiflL IN THE UfilUERSlTY LIBRARY HT BOLOGNA.) Murder of the German Commanders. loi Bartolomaeus Welser, eldest son of tlie senior mem-ber of the great Augsburg firm, who, in 1541, badbeen sent to Welserland as Governor. The Spanish records call him ^^ DonBartolomeo
The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . COiMTEnPORARY MAR SHOVING POSSESSIONS OF THE VELSERCOnPANY IN SOUTH AHERICA. (ORIGlfiflL IN THE UfilUERSlTY LIBRARY HT BOLOGNA.) Murder of the German Commanders. loi Bartolomaeus Welser, eldest son of tlie senior mem-ber of the great Augsburg firm, who, in 1541, badbeen sent to Welserland as Governor. The Spanish records call him ^^ DonBartolomeo Belzar^ Gober-nador de S7c Majestad^ Ade-lantado del Reino de Z^/^-ezuela:^^^ The two German com-manders were murderedon April 18, 1546, by orderof the Spaniard, Carava-jal.°^ When the news ofthis tragedy reached Ger-many it caused great indig-nation, which even thesummary execution of Car- Philip von Hdtten. ^^,„^„1 C„.^ J i. avajai tailed to Welsers, from now onward, took less interest. i» Hutten, in his diary, writes under date of March lo, 1541:Vorkurzen Tagen ist Herrn Bartolma Welsers Sohn hier angekommen, einverstiindiger junger Gesell, iiber dessen Ankunft alle grosse Freude ge-habt haben ; ich habe keinen Zweifel dass ihn die Herrn Welser zumGubernator machen werden, da Gott ihn zu solcher Zeit geschickt hat. ^^ Juan de Caravajal accompanied as notary the first Welser expedi-tion to America, which was sent out under Dalfinger. He afterwardsreturned to San Domingo, where it appears he remained until the death of Heinrich Rembold (1542), he was sent to Coro totake charge of the Government in the absence of Philip von Hutten,Imperial Captain-General, and young Welser, who were upon an ex-tended expedition in the interior. Caravajal at once assumed charge ofaffairs at Coro, and upon learning that the Germans had experiencedgreat hardships and were returning in a shattered condition, and thatthe troops were weakened from wounds and disease, he
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