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He built a fort here, leaving a garrison of fifty-six men under the command of Pedro Margarite to collect gold from the natives, and himself returned to Isabella, which he reached at the end of March. Enforced absence from the thing he has organised is a great test of efficiency in any man.
"Don Pedro Margarite and the Apostolic Vicar had not reached Cadiz when Don Antonio sailed!" The Admiral talked with me that night. Gout again crippled him. He lay helpless, now and then in much pain. "I should go home with Antonio de Torres, but I cannot!" "You are not very fit to go." "I do not mean my body. My will could drag that on ship. But I cannot leave Hispaniola while goes on formal war.
Columbus therefore despatched Ojeda in command of a force of 350 armed men to Saint Thomas with instructions that he was to take over the command of that post, while Margarite was to take out an expedition in search of Caonabo whom, with his brothers, Margarite was instructed to capture at all costs.
After spending some time in this new discovery, he sailed back to Trinidad, discovering the island of Margarite by the way. Thinking his presence might be necessary in the colony of Hispaniola, he stood across the Caribbean sea from Trinidad, and arrived at the new city of San Domingo.
The proceedings of the men under Margarite were similar to those of the Spaniards formerly left at La Navidad.
As Margarite and other mutineers had acted, so did Roldan and his soldiers now act, making sallies against several of the chain of forts that stretched across the island, and even upon Isabella itself; and returning to the Vega to the enjoyment of primitive wild pleasures.
Thomas. He had stories. The Viceroy grew dark red, his eyes lightened. Yet he believed that what was told pertained to men of Margarite, not to that cavalier himself. He wrote to Margarite I do not know what. But presently a plan arose in his mind and was announced. Don Alonso de Ojeda was to command St. Thomas.
It was therefore decided to send home James, who could most easily be spared, and whose testimony as a member of the governing body during the absence of the Admiral on his voyage to Cuba might be relied upon to counteract the jealous accusations of Margarite and Buil. Unfortunately there was no golden cargo to send back with him.
But they were such men as Nature might put forward among her goodly fruit. The Viceroy lay still in his bed, for each time he would rise came faintness and old fatigue. The Adelantado acted. There was storm in Hispaniola, storm of human passions. I found Luis Torres, and he put me within leg-stride of the present. Margarite! It seemed to begin with Don Pedro Margarite.
Thus Don Pedro Margarite to himself. The peaceable and gentle natives soon began to resent these gross doings.
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