Another teacher and writer of Lima, whose death occurred at Porto Bello twenty years later than that of Venegas, was Juan de Urquiza. He had been engaged for twenty-four years in the college of Lima, and during this period he wrote _Tractatus de profundissima sciencia_ and _Relación de la fundación de la real audiencia del Cuzco_. The second of these documents was published in Madrid in 1795.[127] VIII [Sidenote: Pedro Simón’s _Noticias_] [Sidenote: Life of Simón: his journeys] [Sidenote: Simón on Lope de Aguirre] An instance of long-delayed publication is offered by that part of Pedro Simón’s work which now forms the second, third, fourth and fifth volumes of his _Noticias historiales de las conquistas de Tierra Firme en las Indias occidentales_, written in the first half of the seventeenth century and printed in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Simón was born at Parrilla, near Cuenca, in Spain, in 1574, and began writing in 1623 at the age of forty-nine. He was educated in the monastery of San Francisco de Cartagena in Spain, and was sent to South America in 1604 to teach theology and the arts. The early part of Simón’s career in New Granada thus fell in the long incumbency of President Juan de Borja (1605-1626), whom he accompanied in the campaign against the Pijaos Indians. The first part of his _Noticias historiales_ dealt with the history of the early explorations of the territory now claimed by Venezuela, and is based largely on information gathered on a journey through that region. Embarking at Coro, he visited the Antilles, and returned to Bogotá. Among other places reached in his travels were Antioquía, Cartagena, and Santa Marta. During these journeys he collected much of the material for his narrative directly from persons who participated in the events in question, or who had lived near enough to them to hear and remember the current tales about them. Other sources were the writings of Castellanos and a manuscript of Bachiller Francisco Vásquez. “Indeed page after page of Simón is transcribed word for word from the manuscript of Vásquez.”[128] Still another source of information from which Simón may have drawn was Ortiguera’s manuscript account of the “Expedition down the Marañón” which does not differ essentially from that of Vásquez. The narration of the events of this expedition constitutes the most noteworthy section of the first part of Simón’s work. The four volumes more recently published treat of the discoveries made through the valley of the Magdalena, together with the discoveries, explorations, and early history of the regions about Cartagena, Popayán, Antioquía, and Chocó.[129] [Sidenote: Death of Lope de Aguirre] Simón’s account of the death of the bloodthirsty Lope de Aguirre furnishes an indication of the general characteristics of our author’s style and a suggestion of the voluminous details of his narratives:[130]