1. Pedro de Ursua conceived that this land was within his jurisdiction; as, according to the conjectures of the Brazilian Indians, and of one of their Portuguese companions, whom they took as guides, it was not distant from the land of the Omaguas. He, therefore, felt it to be necessary to regulate the affairs of his government, which he had not yet done, especially as regarded those which concerned spiritual matters. Some priests who were in the fleet, quarrelled amongst themselves for want of a chief: so he determined to nominate from among them a vicar-general, who, in spiritual affairs, should have jurisdiction over the fleet. He considered that he had powers to make such a nomination, in the same way as his majesty, whose person he represented, had to make bishops and other dignitaries; so he selected for this office a priest named Alonzo Henao. This man began to exercise the duties of his office by promulgating certain excommunications against those who did not restore to Ursua all kinds of goods, live stock, tools, arms, and munitions which they had taken. Those who envied the governor, publicly said that he had nominated this man to be vicar-general, in order that he might promulgate those excommunications, and not from zeal for the public service; and declared that he had no right to name an ecclesiastical judge.