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ing informed that the Spaniards were coming, refolved to 
oppole them. Don Bartholomzzv gave them to imderftand, 
that he came not to raakeY 7 ar, but to vifit the King 
and his Sifter, and was thereupon received with much 
Pomp and Rejoicing. Proceeding thence thirty Leagues 
farther, he came to Xaragua : All the prime Men of the 
Province received him with Dancing and Singing, and 
other forts of Rejoicings *, he was conduced to the King’s 
Palace, where Suppeb was ready, being Bread made of 
Cazabi, Utias boiled and roailed, and a prodigious Quan- 
tity of Sea and Freili-water Fifli. After Supper they 
condiidled all Don Bartholomew'' Company to their re- 
fpedlive Quarters, their Beds being Cotton Hammocks. 
The next Day, in the Square where the King, his Sifter, 
and Don Bartholomew were prefent, there appeared two 
Parties of Men armed with Bows and Arrows, who made 
a Skirmifh after the ma.nner of Spain^ pradlifed with Canes 
inftead of Spears ; but by Degrees they began to grow 
hot, and many of them were wounded, and four dropped 
dovrn dead •, and all this with much Satisfadtion, without 
regarding the Dead and Wounded ; and many more had 
fuffered, had not the King, at the Requeft of Don Bar- 
tholomew mdtht Spajtiards^ commanded them, when moft 
furious, to give over. 
After the Entertainment Don Bartholomew told Bohe- 
chico and his Sifter, that his Brother, the Admiral, was 
gone to viftt their Majefties of Spain^ his Sovereigns, to 
whom many Lords of the Eland were already become 
Tributaries ; and that he came thither to the end that he 
fhoijld own and pay Tribute to them. He anfwered, 
That as no Gold was found throughout all his Dominions 
he could not pay Tribute. Don Bartholomew told 
him, it was not his Deftgn that any one fhould pay Tri- 
bute any otherwife than what his Country afforded ; upon 
v/hich he faid, he would give him as much Cotton and 
Cazabi as he would demand, and ordered his People 
to plant Cotton, becaufe they were to pay Tribute of 
it to their Majefties of Spain^ and, in their Name, to the 
Admiral, and to his Brother Don Bartholomew, who was 
then in his Houfe. Having thus concluded Boh echico, 
'DonBartholomew thought fit to return to the Mines of Cihao 
and Colony oilfabella, and found that near 300 Men had 
died of feveral Difeafes, which troubled him very much; 
and the more, as no Ships came with Provifions ; for 
which Reafon he refolved to diftribute the Sick and Infirm 
among the feveral Forts there were between Ifahella and 
Santo Domingo and the Indian Towns ; that having fome- 
thing to eat, they might have only their Diftemper to 
ftruggle with, and not Hunger at the fame time. 
Then, having given Orders for the carrying on the 
Building of the two Ships, he went towards Santo Do- 
mingo, gathering in the Tribute as he proceeded. The 
Indians of the Plain, and thofe of Cihao, thinking it hard 
to pay Tribute, and entertain Soldiers at their own Expence, 
and fuch as did eat fo much, befides other things, which 
they looked upon as Grievances, complained to the Ca- 
zique Guarinoex, reprefenting, itwas his Duty to endea- 
vour to fet himfelf and them at liberty. Guarinoex being 
a peaceable Man, and confidering the Force of the Spa- 
niards, the Swiftnefs of their Horfes, and the ill Succefs 
Caunabo, and others of the Province of Cibao, had met 
with, refufed to engage in a War ; but being impor- 
tuned by his People, who always perfuaded him that they 
could get the better ; and, as fome fay, being threatened 
they would chufe another Leader, he confented to com- 
mence the War. Dhs. Spaniards, mt\it Conception, per- 
ceived thofe Commotions, and gave notice to thofe at 
the Fort built at Bonao, by fome Indians who remain- 
ed faithful to thofe of Bonao, and alfo fent to Don Bar- 
tholomew, who was 2X. Santo Domingo. 'Th.t Indian made 
life of a Stratagem in carrying thofe Letters de- 
livered to him in a Staff that was hollow at one 
End ; for the other Indians liaving found by Experience, 
that the Spanish Letters fpoke, endeavoured to intercept 
them ; and the Meffenger, falling into the Hands of the 
Guards polled on the PaiTes, pretended to be dumb 
and lame, anfwering them altogether by Signs and Limp- 
ing, as if he was going with mmch Difficulty into his own 
Country, he efcaped ; becaufe they thinking he had been 
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dumb, alked him no Queftions ; and fuppofing that the 
Staff had been to help him on they did not fearch it. 
And thus the Letter came fafe to Don Barthclomew Co- 
lumbus ; which proved the Safety of the Spaniards. As 
foon as Don Bartholomew came to the Conception, he ad- 
vanced with all the Spaniards to fall upon 1 5,000 IndianSy 
Guarinoex had drawn together and attacked them hySurprize 
at Midnight, becaufe they never fought in the Night. They 
killed and took many ; feveral Lords, of which Num- 
ber they executed the chief Ring-leaders of that War ; and 
Guarinoex being carried to the Conception, above 5000 
Men follov/ed with loud Cries, demanding their King. 
Don Bartholomew pitying them, and he, being fenfible of 
Guarinoex' peaceable Temper, gave him and the other 
Caziques up to them to their great Satisfaftion, the lefs 
regarded by the Spaniards, as being vanquifhed and 
fubdued. 
At this Time Meffengers came to Don Bartholomew 
from Bohechic <?and Anacanona with Advice, that the Cazabi 
and Cotton were ready ; for when the Seeds of Cotton are- 
planted, the Shrubs that fprout produce Fruit in fix or 
eight Months, and the higheft of them rife about a Fa- 
thom, tho’ they begin to produce when much ffiorter, 
Don Bortholomew was refolved to go to Xaragua, to ga- 
ther the Tribute, and leave his Men in that Country, to 
give them of the Plain, and others. Reft, tho’ the Soldi- 
ers were in fuch Want of Clothes and other Things 
brought from Spain, that they grew very uneafy. He 
fent Orders to Ifahella, for one of the Caravels to come to 
' the Port of Xaragua to carry him, that Harbour being a 
large Bay, or Inlet of the Sea, dividing the Eland into 
two Parts, the one of which forms Cape St. Nicholas, 
ftretching out 30 Leagues; the other much larger, and 
ends in the Cape called Tiburon, and the Bottom of the 
Bay reached within two Leagues of Bohechic o' 5 Palace. 
Thofe at Ifahella fent the Caravel, and v/hen it came into 
the Port, Anacanona perfuaded her Brother to go to the 
Port, to fee the Spanifh Canoe. Tho’ Bohechico had tv/o 
very fine Canoes, Anacanona would not go in them ; but 
in the Pinnace. The Veffel fired, which put tlie Indians 
into fuch a Confternation that they were ready to leap into 
the Water ; but feeing Don Bartholomew laugh, they 
compofed themfelves. When they were aboard, the Sea- 
men played on a Tabor and Pipe, and other Inftruments ; 
which much pleafed the Indians ; they looked all about the 
Head and Stern, went aboard the Caravel, and into the 
Hold, and were amazed. Don Bartholomew ordered the 
Sails to be fpread, and the Caravel to take a Trip to 
Sea and return to the fame Place. The Cazique admired 
that fo great a Veffel fhould make way v/ithout Oars^ 
and go forward and backward with the fame Wind. 
When they returned to Xaragua the Caravel was loaded 
with Cazabi, Cotton, and other Things, and went away to 
Ifahella, as Don Bartholomew did by Land. And being 
thus employed, Francis Roldan, the head Alcalde, a tur- 
bulent Man, wffio forgot the Admiral’s Bread he had eaten, 
defiring to get into Authority, by raifing Commotions ; 
and taking, for his Pretence, Don James Columbus' & ha- 
ving ordered the Caravel which had carried Bread and 
Wine to the Ifahella, to be laid dry, to prevent its be- 
ing ftolen by fome Malcontents, who defired to go away 
into Spain, began to cabal among the labouringMen, as alio 
with the Seamen, and other mean People and thofe that were 
moft difcontented, intimating that the Caravel would be 
better in the Water, and ought to be fent into Spain with 
Letters to their Catholic Majefties, fince the Admiral ft aid 
fo long ; that theirWants might be relieved, and they not 
periffi with Hunger, or be deftroyed by the Indians. 
That Don Bartholomew and his Brother would not fend it, 
becaufe they defigned to revolt, and keep the Ifland to 
themfelves, and to make them all Slaves, employing them 
in building their Houfes and Forts ; to attend them in ga- 
thering the Tribute, and enriching themfelves with Gold. 
The Men finding themfelves encouraged by a Perfon of fuch 
Power, as the Chief Alcalde, had the Impudence to fay thofe 
things in public which before they fcarce durft mutter in 
Corners. Roldan required they fliould all fign a Paper, 
importing, that it was for the Public Good that the Cara- 
vel fhould be fet afloat ; but, as he was very fenfible it 
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