Grande_, or the Great River, is about three hundred leagues: it is a very low country, and hath many lakes. From _Pacaha_ to _Quigaute_ may be an hundred leagues. The Governor left the Cacique of _Quigaute_ in his own town. And an Indian, which was his guide, led him through great woods without any way, seven days' journey through a desert, where, at every lodging, they lodged in lakes and pools in very shoal water; there was such store of fish, that they killed them with cudgels; and the Indians which they carried in chains, with the mud troubled the waters, and the fish being therewith, as it were, astonished, came to the top of the water, and they took as much as they listed. The Indians of _Coligoa_ had no knowledge of the Christians, and when they came so near the town that the Indians saw them, they fled up a river which passed near the town, and some leaped into it; but the Christians went on both sides of the river, and took them. There were many men and women taken, and the cacique with them. And by his commandment within three days came many Indians with a present of mantles and deers' skins, and two ox hides: and they reported, that five or six leagues from thence toward the north, there were many of these oxen, and that because the country was cold, it was evil inhabited; that the best country which they knew, the most plentiful, and most inhabited, was a province called _Cayas_, lying toward the south. From _Quigaute_ to _Coligoa_ may be forty leagues. This town of _Coligoa_ stood at the foot of a hill, on the bank of a mean river, of the bigness of _Cayas_, the river that passeth by _Estremadura_. It was a fat soil and so plentiful of maize, that they cast out the old, to bring in the new. There was also great plenty of French beans and pompions. The French beans were greater, and better than those of _Spain_, and likewise the pompions, and being roasted, they have almost the taste of chestnuts. The Cacique of _Coligoa_ gave a guide to _Cayas_, and stayed behind in his own town. We traveled five days, and came to the province of _Palisema_. The house of the cacique was found covered with deers' skins, of divers colors and works drawn in them, and with the same in manner of carpets was the ground of the house covered. The cacique left it so, that the Governor might lodge in it, in token that he sought peace and his friendship. But he durst not tarry his coming. The Governor, seeing he had absented himself, sent a captain with horsemen and footmen to seek him. He found much people, but by reason of the roughness of the country, he took none save a few women and children. The town was little and scattering, and had very little maize. For which cause the Governor speedily departed from thence. He came to another town called _Tatalicoya_; he carried with him the cacique thereof, which guided him to _Cayas_. From _Tatalicoya_ are four days' journey to _Cayas_. When he came to _Cayas_, and saw the town