Ballester urges Columbus to settle as Bonao rebels demand a public agreement

… When the warden Ballester and Alonso Sanchez de Carvajal reached the Bonao, Carvajal spoke to them all very eloquently, and with such effect that he moved Francisco Roldan and the most principal of them to go and speak to the Admiral, where everything would without doubt have been concluded and settled, as was believed; but since the people he had, almost all of them, took no pleasure in giving up the idle and free life they led, being vicious and low people, chiefly those he had taken on in Xaraguá, from among the condemned men the Admiral had sent, when Roldan and the rest now wished to come here to Sancto Domingo with Carvajal and the Admiral, they all leap up with loud voices, saying “that they swore by such and such that it should not be so, and that they would not consent that Roldan or the rest should go, but that if an agreement was to be made, it should be public there to all, since it touched all”; Carvajal and the warden pressed them for some days to bring them to reason, and in the end it did no good. …