Bobadilla’s caravels reach Santo Domingo and Diego Columbus sends a canoe

While the Admiral was in these thoughts, and in the Vega, or la Concepcion de la Vega, which was the fortress, or in Guaricano, which was half a league away, down the plain, where there were some houses built in which some Christians lived, and where the seat of the villa they called la Concepcion had been first, and the Adelantado was in Xaraguá with Francisco Roldan, seizing those they could get of those who had conspired with Don Hernando to kill Francisco Roldan, and Don Diego, brother of the Admiral and Adelantado, in this city, or villa as it then was, of Sancto Domingo, gathering those whom they seized and sent here, and hanging them, on Sunday, which counted 23 of August of the same year of 500, at the hour of seven or eight in the morning, the two ships or caravels came into sight, which were called, the one, the Gorda, and the other, the Antigua, in which came the commander Bobadilla; …