She carried away with her a little chest made of canes in manner of a coffer, which they call petaca, full of unbored pearls. Some which could judge of them, said that they were of great value. An Indian woman that waited on her did carry them. The Governor, not to discontent her altogether, left them with her, making account that in _Guaxule_ he would ask them of her, when he gave her leave to return; which coffer she carried away and went to _Xualla_ with three slaves which fled from the camp, and one horseman which remained behind, who, falling sick of an ague, went out of the way and was lost. This man, whose name was _Alimamos_, dealt with the slaves to change their evil purpose, and return with him to the Christians, which two of them did; and _Alimamos_ and they overtook the Governor fifty leagues from thence in a province called _Chiaha_; and reported how the lady remained in _Xualla_ with a slave of _Andrew de Vasconcelos_, which would not come back with them; and that of a certainty they lived as man and wife together, and meant to go both to _Cutifachiqui_. Within five days the Governor came to _Guaxule_. The Indians there gave him a present of three hundred dogs, because they saw the Christians esteem them, and sought them to feed on them; for among them they are not eaten. In _Guaxule_, and all that way, was very little maize. The Governor sent from thence an Indian with a message to the cacique of _Chiaha_, to desire him to gather some maize thither, that he might rest a few days in _Chiaha_. The Governor departed from _Guaxule_, and in two days' journey came to a town called _Canasagua_. There met him on the way twenty Indians, every one loaded with a basketful of mulberries; for there be many, and those very good, from _Cutifachiqui_ thither, and so forward in other provinces, and also nuts and plums. And the trees grow in the fields without planting or dressing them, and as big and as rank as though they grew in gardens digged and watered. From the time that the Governor departed from _Canasagua_, he journeyed five days through a desert; and two leagues before he came to _Chiaha_, there met him fifteen Indians loaded with maize, which the cacique had sent; and they told him on his behalf, that he waited his coming with twenty barns full of it; and further, that himself, his country, and subjects, and all things else were at his service. On the fifth day of June, the Governor entered into _Chiaha_. The cacique voided his own houses, in which he lodged, and received him with much joy, saying these words following:--