_Nunnez_, amongst his other Slavesses, had one exceeding beautiful, on which he was much Enamour’d, and she likewise seem’d to bear as great an affection towards him, which she manifested, by declaring the secret to _Nunnez_ which her Brother had imparted to her, being an intended general Massacre the night following, that so she might the better make her escape the day before; yet so much she prefer’d the safety of her Lover, before the liberty of her Native Countrey, that she discover’d the Plot. _Nunnez_ not sleeping on this advice, on a sudden set so fiercely upon the Conspirators, that he utterly broke their design; yet the Feuds and Contests for Superiority still continu’d amongst them, which look’d with so bad a Face to the ruine of all, that news thereof arriving in _Spain_, it was judg’d fit to send for _Colmenares_, and _John Quicedo_ to the Court, there to render an account of all their Transactions, Both going Aboard a small Vessel, were by Storm driven on the Coast of _Cuba_, where they were inform’d from a Prisoner, that _Valdivia_ and _Zamudio_, driven ashore by Shipwrack, and not able to defend themselves, were surpriz’d by the Natives, kill’d and eaten; that _Fogeda_ driven up and down along the Coast, had lost most of his People by hunger, and other hardship, and himself with much ado getting to _Hispaniola_, dy’d as soon as Landed of the Wound which he receiv’d by a Poysonous Arrow, near the River _Daria_. [Sidenote: _Ancisus_ Voyage.] [Sidenote: A Temple dedicated to the Virgin _Mary_ on the Island _Cuba_.] But much happier was _Ancisus_, who soon after _Fogeda_ coming to _Cuba_, found a King, who suffer’d himself to be Christen’d, and call’d _Commendator_; and building a Church, Consecrated it to the Virgin _Mary_; in it he erected an Image of Clay, resembling a Woman, which he clothed in a Cotton Garment; round about were plac’d Pots with Meat and Water, according to their old Idolatrous fashion, otherwise, they believ’d their Idols would devour the Souls of the Dead, and this, though Christians, they did not forget. Nay further, when he went to War, he carry’d the Image of the Virgin _Mary_ with him in the Front of his Army, often saying, _Ave Maria_; and this was the end of that Voyage: But afterwards _Ancisus_ complain’d against _Vascus Nunnez_ in the _Spanish_ Court, where he receiv’d a Sentence very prejudicial to him. _Colmenares_ and _Quicedo_ had also Audience there, whereupon matters being settled, a firm Government was establish’d in _Uraba_. SECT. VIII. Peter Arias _his Expedition, and remarkable Passages of_ Vascus Nunnez. [Sidenote: _Nicuesa_ suffers hunger.]