Columbus gives Roldán the Taíno-worked fields of the Esperanza estancia

He gave him also other plantings that had been made by the Indians in a land or district in which he had made an estancia, which in Castile I believe they would call a casería, or cortijo, or heredad, where the plantings were made and from them the bread, and hens were raised, and gardens made, and all the rest that was needed for Spaniards to have a holding or estate, and a good life, except the livestock, which were kept elsewhere; I think this estancia was made in the name of the King, and with this title they commanded the Indians to work it, and they gave it the name Esperanza. The Admiral granted Roldan further that the cacique and lord whom Alonso de Hojeda had cropped of his ears, as was said in chapter 93, and his people should work them for him; see here how that so just governance was being laid down that they called repartimiento, and afterward the honest encomiendas. The Admiral says here that he did and gave all this so that there would be time to hear from Their Highnesses what they commanded to be done about him and his company, since, as they promised, they were not leaving. …