. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . ts of Viceita, where hecaptured the principal cacique, Quirigramá,who was most warlike. After this he imme-diately set about the conquest of the Valley ofthe Duy ^ and reduced it also to , cacique of Usabarii, then proposed toSo jo that the Spaniards remain in that countryto prevent a reopening of the war between thedifferent tribes, which would otherwise be re-sumed after their departure. Readily acquies-cing in the plan, So jo laid it before his men, ex-plaining to them the advantages offered bythe establishment of a
. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . ts of Viceita, where hecaptured the principal cacique, Quirigramá,who was most warlike. After this he imme-diately set about the conquest of the Valley ofthe Duy ^ and reduced it also to , cacique of Usabarii, then proposed toSo jo that the Spaniards remain in that countryto prevent a reopening of the war between thedifferent tribes, which would otherwise be re-sumed after their departure. Readily acquies-cing in the plan, So jo laid it before his men, ex-plaining to them the advantages offered bythe establishment of a settlement in that beau-tiful valley, where there were many Indians andan abundant food supply, also good timber forthe building of ships. Some of the Spaniards approved the idea;others replied that before reaching a decision theymust know whether there was a near-by port site * Between the Sixaola and Changuinola rivers, and near thesea, flows a small river that still preserves the name of Duruy,or Duiz. This river empties into the Sand-Sand CONQUEST OF COSTA RICA 319 through which they would be able to establishcommercial relations with the kingdom of TierraFirme. To remove all doubts on this point, So joordered Captain Pedro Flórez, who had been as-sociated with Juan Cabral, to explore the TarireRiver down to the sea. This exploration pro-duced good results and thereby removed the ob-jection urged against the project. Thereuponon the 10th of October, 1605,^ he founded, onthe right bank of the Tarire River,^ the city ofSantiago de Talamanca, which he thus named incommemoration of his birthplace in Castile.*After laying out the plans of the city, Sojo dis-tributed building sites among the inhabitants tobe, and the Ateos, Viceitas, Quequexques, Tér-rebes, Usabarús, Munaguas, Xicaguas, Suca-ques and Cabécaras Indians, all of whom hadbeen subjected to the power of Spain, were ap-portioned among them. He appointed a Cabildo composed of CaptainPedro Flórez, Sergeant
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