A lord west of the harbor feasts six Spaniards and gives gold

… He determined to set out for it on Sunday, although he was not accustomed to leave port on a Sunday, only out of his devotion and not from any superstition; but in the hope, he says, that those peoples are to be Christians because of the goodwill they show, and to be the Sovereigns of Castile’s, and because he already holds them as his own, and so that they may serve him with love, he wishes and strives to do them every pleasure. Before he left today he sent six men to a very large village three leagues from there on the west side, because its lord came to the Admiral the day before and said that he had certain pieces of gold. When the Christians arrived there, the lord took the Admiral’s notary by the hand, who was one of them, whom the Admiral sent so that he should not allow the others to do anything wrong to the Indians, because, as the Indians were so free, and the Spaniards so greedy and immoderate, it was not enough for them that for the tip of a lace, and even for a piece of glass and of a bowl, and for other things of no value at all, the Indians gave them all they wanted; …