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Domincan friars were in conditions to go as well, who officiated as Inquisitors with Ricardo of
Tharsis. If all occurred as was expected, the travellers would send to bring those who remained
there; otherwise, they would join to the Strategy of the German branch of the family.
The problem of the journey, as I said, was easily resolved thanks to the providence of the
Gods, because a young German explorer, at the service of the Welser House, was a distant
relative of the Lords of Tharsis. Nicolaus of Federmann, indeed, carried the lineage of the
Austrian Lords of Tharsis by his matrilineal heritage and he was in America. The King Charles I,
and the German Emperor Charles V, contracted a debt of 150.000 ducats with the Welser’s
House of Augsburg signing, as some kind of royal guarantee, a capitulation in Burgos whereby
he authorized such Bank to establish and exploit a region of America. Such region was
composed by the actual territory of Venezuela, from el Cabo de la Vesta to Maracapana, and the
Company imposed to itself the obligation to found two cities and three fortesses, in which they
could name a Governor with the royal consent. In the year 1527 Juan Ampués founded there
the city of Vela de Santa Ana de Coro, where Ambrosious de Alfinger settled down in 1528, the
first Governor named by the Welser’s, who took with him as lieutenant to Nicolaus Federmann.
In 1530, after such meeting of Lito of tharsis with the Men of Stone to deicide the voyage to
America, they discovered throught he news coming from the Vrunaldina’s branch the existence
of that relative, amd they contaceted him through the slow correspondence that the Dominican
maintained with the friar missionaries. Was attempted, in any case, to not risk information
though that manner and because of this the missives were only referred to the necessity of
sustaining a personal meeting with the explorer «for vital motives that will be clarified then».
Something difficult to accomplish in those days due to Ferdermann concurred in very
dangerous explorations in the heart of the Venezuelan jungle searching for the gold of the
Indians.
Anyhow, the Lords of Tharsis moved to the port of Seville and they started to prepare
their own expedition, discounting the help of Federmann. In that case the luck smiled to the
Lords of Tharsis in 1532, although not to Ambrosious de Alfinger, to whom an arrow with
curare sent him to a better life. Because was the death of the Governor was what brought
Nicolaus Federmann to Europe, with the purpose of reclaiming for himself such place that he
had won fairly. The Welser’s, notwithstanding, gave the charge to Georg de Spira, a prestigious
man who counted with countless influences and powerful friends, naming in compensation to
Federmann General of the Governor. And was in 1533, when the German was occupied to
equip the fleet of the Welser’s, all gathered in Seville.
Nicolaus Federmann was not an Initiate nor magic or esoterism connoisseur, but the
Blood of Tharsis flowed through his veins. Immediately he understood that the mysterious
cause that took his relatives to America had to be supported and he acceded in all its points to
effectuate the plan that they proposed; a secret instinct was telling him that he was not wrong,
that something superior to the gold, for which he was disposed to die, guided those
adventurers: he could perceive it in the air when he was in their presence; and if that wasn’t
enough, they also paid with gold: with good Spanish gold, due to his relatives resulted to be
very rich. Yes, Nicolaus Federmann would risk for the Lords of Tharsis. The plan seemed to be
simple: six of them would have to be transported; three were Knights and would be easy to
contract; two, Dominican friars, who already disposed form the ecclesiastic dispensation, and
also, for the satisfaction of the Welser’s, they were expert miners and specialist in fine metals,

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