and for which he was grateful: wherefore, he would be party to no treaty
to desert Guarionex, since he had fled to him, and he had pledged himself
to take care of the fugitive; and would rather suffer all extremities than
give detractors a cause for speaking ill, to say that he had delivered up
his guest." The assemblage of the people being dismissed, Maiobanex
informed his guest that he would stand by him to the last.


THEIR CAPTURE.

The fugitive cacique, however, finding that Maiobanex's people were
ill-disposed towards him, quitted, of his own accord, their territory; but
by so doing, he was not enabled to save his generous host, who, with his
family, was surprized and taken; and Guarionex himself being shortly
afterwards captured and put in chains at Fort Concepcion, the two caciques
probably shared the same prison. Thus concludes a story, which, if it had
been written by some Indian Plutarch, and the names had been more easy to
pronounce, might have taken its just place amongst the familiar and
household stories which we tell our children, to make them see the beauty
of great actions.



CHAPTER IX.


COLUMBUS'S THIRD VOYAGE.

A good starting-point for that important part of the narrative which comes
next--namely, the discovery of the American continent by Columbus--will be