History of the Discovery And Conquest of Costa Rica
History of the Discovery And Conquest of Costa Rica
Ricardo Fernández Guardia
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By royal decree of 1529 it was declared to belong to the government of Nicaragua. Thus ends the brief history of Brtiselas, the first town founded by the Spaniards in the ter- ritory of Costa Rica. The Indians inhabiting the shores of the Gulf of Nicoya and distributed Digitized by LjOOQ IC CONQUEST OF COSTA RICA 108 among the inhabitants were treated with great barbarity. Those who did not die of fatigue from their employment as beasts of burden were forcibly taken from their lands, branded by... hot irons ^ and sent to Panama, Peru and elsewhere to be sold as slaves. Against these cruelties, the Chorotegas, who at first submitted, later re- belled, and many Indians of other tribes and from the Island of Chira, flying from the Span- iards, sought refuge with them;® for, after the destruction of Bruselas, they were parceled out anew among the inhabitants of the cities of Le6n and Granada, Pedrarias reserving for himself the best of those in Nicoya. Even the Indians of that region, though they had from the first submitted and shown fidelity to the conquerors, did not on this account receive preferment.
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