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and when they had deah out justice to the most guilty, and pacified 

 the country, they got word of the death of the great Capt. Juan 

 Rodriguez Suarez and his men and of the abandonment of the new 

 city of Caraballeda in consequence of the rebeUion and uprising of the 

 Caracas, Terepaimas, and other adjoining tribes. 



263. Gen. Diego de Losada, having received this news and con- 

 sidering the great wealth of that region, decided to go and chastise 

 the savages and pacify the country again ; and so in the year 1564 he 

 announced the campaign and began raising a force for it ; volunteers 

 flowed in from many quarters, and out they went to conquer, valiant 

 captains and soldiers, and among them Capt. Diego de Henares, Alonso 

 Galeas as Captain of the cavalry troop, and Gabriel de Avis, Royal 

 Ensign, and Capt. Sebastian Diaz, Garci Gonzalez, Francisco Infante, 

 Lazaro Vazquez, Baltasar Mufioz, Pedro de IMadrid, Agustin de 

 Ancona, and other valiant captains and soldiers, who all together 

 numbered 130 Spaniards. They entered these provinces of Caracas 

 the following year, 1565, and sufifered great hardships, having numer- 

 ous encounters with the heathen, in which many of them were con- 

 quered and killed ; and thus they avenged the death of Capt. Juan 

 Rodriguez Suarez and his men, having subdued the natives and again 

 pacified the country. 



264. In the year 1566, after a reconnoissance of the whole country 

 and its best locations, this Gen. Diego Losada chose as a suitable site 

 for founding and settling a city, a splendid valley, fertile and attractive, 

 named Caracas and lying between two mountain ranges 4 leagues from 

 the harbor of La Guaira ; and after cruel skirmishes and battles with 

 the savages, since they saw they could not withstand the valor of the 

 Spaniards, they rendered obedience to him on the day of Santiago, and 

 so he founded the city on that day and gave it the name of Santiago de 

 Leon ; it lies 6 leagues from that of Caraballeda, which was the first 

 founded, and is likewise called Caracas, after the Indian tribe and 

 cacique of this country, who rendered obedience. 



Chapter XXVIII 



Of the City of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, of Other Matters 

 Regarding These Provinces, and of the Valiant Deeds Accomplished 

 by the Spaniards. 



265. After founding the new city, the valiant Spaniards did not 

 cease their conquests, bringing those heathen to the knowledge of our 

 Holy Faith and the service of His Majesty. Among these, the valiant 

 Capt. Garci Gonzalez distinguished himself ; after the distribution of 



