We meet with it in Nicaragua as well. Oviedo relates that Pedsarias Davila, governor of the province in 1538, charged F. Bobadilla, of the Order of St. Dominic, to inquire into the spiritual condition of those Indians whom his predecessors boasted of having converted in great numbers to Catholicism, which he, Davila, with good reason, doubted. The monk accordingly examined the natives, and Oviedo has transmitted several dialogues which show us the creed of the Nicaraguans a few years after the Spanish conquest. The following bears directly on our subject:-- "_Question by Bobadilla._ Who has created heaven and earth, the stars and moon, man and all else? "_Answer (by the Cacique Avogoaltegoan)._ Tamagastad and Cippatoval, the one is a man, the other a woman. "_Q._ Who created that man and woman? "_A._ No one. On the contrary, all men and women descend from them. "_Q._ Did they create Christians? "_A._ I do not know, but the Indians descend from Tamagastad and Cippatoval. "_Q._ Are there any gods greater than they? "_A._ No; we believe them to be the greatest. * * * * * "_Q._ Are they gods of flesh or wood, or any other substance? "_A._ They are of flesh; they are man and woman, brown in colour like us Indians. They walked on earth dressed like us, and ate what Indians eat. "_Q._ Who gave them to eat? "_A._ Everything belongs to them. "_Q._ Where are they now? "_A._ In heaven, according to what our ancestors have told us. "_Q._ How did they ascend thither? "_A._ I only know that it is their home. I do not know how they were born, for they have no father nor mother. "_Q._ How do they live at present? "_A._ They eat what Indians eat, for maize and all food proceeds from the place where dwell the _teotes_ (gods). "_Q._ Do you know, or have you heard tell, whether since the _teotes_ created the world it has been destroyed? "_A._ Before the present race existed, the world was destroyed by water and all became sea. "_Q._ How did that man and woman escape? "_A._ They were in heaven, for that was their dwelling, and afterwards they came down to earth and re-made all things as they now are, and we are their issue. "_Q._ You say the whole world was destroyed by water. Did not some individuals save themselves in a canoe, or by some other way? "_A._ No. All the world was drowned, according to what my ancestors told me."