Branches; which they passing, rigled themselves, and made their way, like questing Spaniels following their Game, and still gawling them with their Arrows: whereupon they left their vain pursuit, marching another way to intercept _Mayobanexius_, who with eight thousand _Ciquano_’s were then coming down against them; which prov’d a harder task than was expected: for e’re he could reduce him and his stubborn Party, he spent three Moneths in the Service. SECT. III. [Sidenote: Hath very bad success in his fourth Expedition.] [Sidenote: Fights with _Poresius_.] [Sidenote: Dies.] But the great and worthy Service of these two excellent Brothers deserving rather Statues and Trophies of everlasting Honor, Monuments never to be demolish’d, in their due praise, who had found out after so many baffled Ages, a new World, richer, and not much less than the old, by the aspersing calumniations of one malicious Person, lost his whole Interest and Credit in the _Spanish_ Court, quite out of favour with his Prince, who by his insinuations had hinted so much the matter of Gain among the Courtiers, that every one studied no less than to get a Commission, and so going a Commander to the _Indies_, make up his Mouth, and become suddenly rich. First _Francisco Bombadilla_ prevailing, was sent with full Commission to succeed _Columbus_ in _Hispaniola_; where no sooner Landing, but he exercis’d the extremity of his Authority, and seizing the Admiral and his Brother, fetter’d their Hands and Feet, and put them aboard on two several Ships for _Spain_: where no sooner arriv’d, but the King, not altogether forgetting former Services, commanded them to be unmanacled, and waited on, not as Prisoners, with a civil Retinue to his Court; where they were well entertain’d three years. But they being active Persons, weary of so long repose, got a second Grant to make farther discoveries, and set forth the ninth of _May, Anno 1504._ with four Sail well appointed from _Cadiz_, and had a fair Passage from thence to _Hispaniola_, where begun the Storm, for _Bombadilla_, who had by the Kings Commission so evil treated _Columbus_ and his Brother, as aforemention’d, would not suffer him, though reconciled to the King, so much as to Land, and there refresh themselves and their Men; so he was forc’d to steer on to the Islands _Guamixa_ and _Veragua_, where a Huricane, or sudden stress of Weather sunk two of his Vessels; the other two standing off to Sea escap’d bilging, but so shatter’d and leaky, having also shipp’d abundance of Water, they were resolv’d to put in at _Jamaica_; where weary with the long Voyage, and hatter’d with the Tempest, many of his Sea-men, spent with sickness, after their Landing, died. To these his sufferings from Wind and Weather, and his Enemies abroad, a greater and intestine mischief hapned: _Francisco Poresio_, one of his chief Commanders, absolutely rebell’d, and deserting him, with another Party of his Sea-men went into