ABSTRACT
The mission of Dominicans and Franciscans, with some religious men from Picardy, was sent to the Pearl Coast on Tierra Firma, where they built a monastery, and with a holy and exemplary life attended and preached to the Indians. The Geronimites carefully supplied all their wants from Espanola: they also ordered that great care might be taken to find out the cazique and the " cacica," who, with seventeen other persons, had been betrayed and robbed in Cumana, and sent to Espahola, from which had resulted the death of the Fathers Francisco de Cordova and Juan Garces-that they might be returned to their lands: and a royal order was sent to Zuago to find out the offenders, that they might be punished. And the officers at Seville also ordered that every year six Dominicans should be sent out, provided with every thing.
