Note XVI-1 — Chapter XVI · THE WARS OF THE SPANIARDS. 1523-1524.
Reading edition
Called by Herrera, Ymabite, and by Juarros,
Guat.
, following him, Imabite. 'Y poblò en medio de la provincia de Ymabite, la ciudad de Leon, con templo, y fortaleza.' dec. iii. lib. v. cap. xii. See also
Relacion de Andagoya
, in
Navarrete
,
Col. de Viages
, iii. 413;
Exposicion á S. M. por la justicia y regimiento de la ciudad de Granada
, in
Pacheco
and
Cárdenas
,
Col. Doc.
, vii. 555-6;
Relacion de lo que escriben los oidores
, in
id.
, xiv. 39;
Remesal
,
Hist. Chyapa
, 164;
Oviedo
, iii. 113-14, 119, iv. 100-1. Fray Gil Gonzalez Dávila, in
Teatro Ecles.
, i. 233, gives a representation of what he calls the 'armas de la civdad de Nicaragva,' consisting of a shield bearing in its field a rampant lion with the left paw resting on a globe. The shield is surmounted by a crown. In view of the usual remoteness of this writer from the truth, we may apply the term city of Nicaragua to any city in Nicaragua, notwithstanding he affirms it to be the place discovered by Gil Gonzalez in 1522, and peopled by Hernandez and Pedrarias.