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AMERICA. 



Chap. III. 



CHAP. III. 

 New Granada. 



Firft Difco. 

 very of Km 

 Granada. 



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Gmfalvo Xi- 

 mtuts hi» Ex- 

 pedition. 



He new Kingdom of Granada, as 'tis commonly call'd, was forthemoft 

 part both difcover'd and conquer'd by Gonfalvo Ximenes, about the Year 

 1556. and with fo good fuccefs, that in lefs than a years fpace, the whole 

 Countrey was quietly fttled under the Spaniards Government, and the Captain with 

 his fmall Company had made fliift to gather together fuch a Mafs of Treafure as 

 may feem almoft incredible, V/>> from the %cguli, or petty Princes of thofe Coun- 

 treys, whom he had either deftnay'd or made Tributary. But a more particular 

 Relation of Ximenes his Journey take asfolloweth : 



Being fent out by Peter Ferdinand de Lugo, to difcover the Countreys that lay 

 along the River Magdalena, he travell'd upon the right fide of it with great trouble ; 

 for not onely the brambly Woods, Moors, and deep Brooks, made the Way excee- 

 ding bad to be travell'd, but alfo the Inhabitants, who fell upon him from their 

 Ambufcades : yet at lad he reached Tor^ which Name he chang'd into Pueblo de los 

 Bracos, becaufe four Rivers unite their Waters there. Here ordering his Brigan- 

 tines which were come up the River to call: their Anchors, he judg'd it convenient 

 to flay all the Winter, becaufe the fwoln Rivers had drown'd the adjacent Coun« 

 trey. Ximenes obferving that the Indians fetch'd Salt from the Sea-fide, judg'd that 

 the Countrey was inhabited, and therefore in fair Weather march'd up to the 

 Mountain Opou, behind which he found a Countrey full of Salt-pools, which pro- 

 due'd Cakes of Salt. And fomewhat farther the Province Govern'd by the Cafiquc 

 Bogata, who at firft refilling the Spaniards, was foon put to flight, when he heard the 

 noife of the Guns. The Ranches divided from Bogata* s Countrey by a fmall Moun- 

 tain, alfo maintaining continual Wars with him, fuffer'd the Spaniards unmo- 

 lcfted to travel through their Countrey, and the Valley La Trompetta, to a high bar- 

 ren Mountain, on the top of which Ximenes found feveral Emeraulds ,. and going 

 from thence fell upon the Cafique Tunia, and three days Journey farther, upon the 

 Governors Sagamofa and Diutama j from which three Countreys he carried above a 

 hundred and ninety thoufand pieces of fine Gold, fifty five thoufand pieces of in- 

 different Gold, and eighteen hundred Emeraulds 5 all which the Spaniards left behind 

 with Guards whileft they went back to Bogata, whom they found lying dead of his 

 Wounds on a high Hill : But Sagipa y Bogatas Succeflbr, receiv'd Ximenes with great 

 Civility, t<* engage his Affsftance againft his Neighbors the Ranches ; which he did 

 not refufe him : but afterwards he fell moft perfidioufly upon the faid Sagipa, whom 

 he caus'd to be Executed, becaufe he either could not, or would not difcover where 

 thofe Riches were which Bogata had left behind him. After he had pillag'd the 

 little Region Neyba, and brought into fubje&ion the whole Countrey, he gave it 

 the Name of -Ne* Granada, from Granada the place of his Nativity, being the chief 

 City of the Kingdom of Granada in Spain, and built the City Santa Fe 5 which done, 

 he quitted the Place, upon information that Sebaftian de BeVaka^ar coming from 

 <Popayan } was feeking a Way Northward ; and not long after him Nicholas Federman 

 follow'd, each claiming Ney> Granada as their Right, whereas Ximenes alledg'd, 

 That the firft Difcovery thereof was to be afcribed to him onely : at laft Agree- 

 ing, they refolv'd that it fhould be at the King of Spain's difpofal. 



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