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was founded and settled under orders and a commission from the 

 Circuit Court by Capt. Andres Lopez de Galarza in the year 1551 

 to prevent the depredations committed by the Indians of this province, 

 united with those of Tocaima and Cartago, on persons traveHng to 

 the State of Popayan. 



1050. The city of Vitoria is 50 leagues NW. of Bogota; it was 

 founded and settled by this same Capt. Andres Lopez de Galarza, 

 but it has already been abandoned. This country abounds in fruit, 

 animals, and birds ; it has a few gold mines. 



1051. The city of Tocaima is 15 leagues E. of Bogota and is built 

 on the banks of the Rio Grande de La Magdalena. It has a very 

 hot climate and is supplied with everything necessary for human 

 existence. There is a parish church and a Dominican convent. The 

 Royal Circuit Court named Lope de Salzedo lauregui as General 

 for the villages of this province, to resist the corsair Lope de Aguirre, 

 who had come down the Marafion and had then looted Margarita, 

 leaving after having done much damage and killed many citizens of 

 that city. Then he struck in via Borburata and the State of Caracas, 

 with the idea of entering the New Kingdom of Granada, but God 

 intercepted his path, and he was defeated and killed in the year 1561 

 in the city of Tucuyo by the valiant Militia Captain of His Majesty's 

 forces, Diego Garcia de Paredes, conqueror of the Provinces of 

 Cuicas, and founder and settler of the city of Trujillo in those 

 provinces ; he came from the city of Trujillo in Estremadura in 

 Spain of the noble manorial family of the great Diego Garcia de 

 Paredes, glory and honor of our Spanish nation ; and although in 

 this life he did not receive his deserts, God honored him in his death, 

 for he was sought out by the greatest monarchs in the world, the 

 Supreme Pontiff and the Emperor Charles V ; the Pontiff responded 

 for his soul and the Emperor for his debts and obligations. And 

 since I have made some mention at this point of the corsair, for it 

 was in this province that men were found to stop him, however out 

 of place it may seem, I shall nevertheless recount briefly in the 

 following chapter other cruelties which he perpetrated in Margarita 

 before he left there, and the subsequent events, up to his death. 



Chapter XXVII 



Of the Cruelties Perpetrated by the Rebel Lope de Aguirre ; and 

 of What Followed, up to His Disastrous End and Miserable Death. 



1052. As soon as the freebooter Lope de Aguirre had treacherously 

 gained possession of the island and city of Margarita, and had cap- 



