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1498-10-29

Columbus grants Roldán the Bauruco lands, worked fields and all, near Isabela

Haitian

… They were adored by all the Indians, out of most violent fear, and the Indians trembled before them as before demons, and woe to those who fled, or, as the Spaniards said in their language, rose up, because at once they went to seek them out and make war on them, and made cruel slaughters among them, and those who were taken alive they sold into slavery, and of these the ships went to Castile loaded; and because Francisco Roldan was not the last in the desire to be rich and to want to profit, he asked the Admiral to grant him the lands that were in a certain place, near la Isabela, which is called Bauruco, land of a certain cacique, and the plantings that were on them, because he said that before he rose up they were his. It would have been worth seeing whether he worked them himself or the enslaved Moors of his father, and also what power the Admiral had to give him the lands or plantings or holdings of the wretched Indians, which belonged to others; …

Source  ·  p. t. II, p. 374 Bartolomé de Las Casas, Historia de las Indias (t. II) (1875), p. t. II, p. 374