. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . th dem-onstrations of respect, took him by the arm andinduced him to sit beside them on the grass, butwhen Don Bartolomé began to question themand caused a scrivener to take down their an-swers, the Indians were greatly terrified at thesight of pen and paper and nearly all of themran away—in the belief, no doubt, that theseutensils had to do with evil spirits. When the ships had been repaired and pro-visioned with all they had need of, the Admiraldecided to resume the voyage. Before doing so,however, he sent Don Bartolomé back to theshore
. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . th dem-onstrations of respect, took him by the arm andinduced him to sit beside them on the grass, butwhen Don Bartolomé began to question themand caused a scrivener to take down their an-swers, the Indians were greatly terrified at thesight of pen and paper and nearly all of themran away—in the belief, no doubt, that theseutensils had to do with evil spirits. When the ships had been repaired and pro-visioned with all they had need of, the Admiraldecided to resume the voyage. Before doing so,however, he sent Don Bartolomé back to theshore with several soldiers and instructions to goabout among the Indian hamlets for the pur-pose of forming an idea of the country and itsinhabitants. On the 2nd of October the Ade-lantado visited some of the near-by one of the largest of them, built of wood androofed with matted reeds, he noted with sur-prise that the Indians had sepulchers, in whichhe found embalmed bodies q^iveloped in cottonmantas and adorned with golden ornaments and. ^)l■- DiiTEUEXT-coLoRicn as In National MnsiMiin of Costa Kira. (IMioto. Giimi-z.) CONQUEST OF COSTA RICA 35 strings of beads. The sepulchers themselveswere covered by boards and carved with figuresrepresenting men and animals. These and other evidences of the accomplish-ments of the natives of Cariay led the Admiralto form a very good opinion of them, with theresult that he concluded to carry one away withhim to serve as a guide along the coast. By hisorders seven were captured. Of these he selectedtwo who appeared to be of the principal menof the place. The others he liberated after hav-ing beguiled them by means of gifts and othermarks of friendship into believing that those hewas detaining were to be held, not as prisoners,but merely in the capacity of guides. Neverthe-less the Indians, either because they did not un-derstand Columbus intention or because theydid not assent to his purpo
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