sentences:  Jiménez de Quesada departed on April 5, 1536 from Santa Marta, on behalf of its governor Pedro Fernández de Lugo, leading a mainly military force of some 600 land troops and several hundred sailors manning brigantines for river navigation.The third stage of the land route took them up the Cordillera Oriental of the Andes into Muisca territory.The expedition suffered heavy losses from disease, and several times stopped for periods of weeks or months to rest and regain strength along the way.