Columbus proclaims the settlement with Roldán and gives departing rebels captives

On the 28th day of September of that year 1499, the provision of the settlement that the Admiral had made with Roldan and with them was proclaimed; it was said that Francisco Roldan had distributed a great quantity of gold among those who had been of his company. The Admiral dispatched ships to Castile, I did not learn how many, to comply with what was capitulated, and to those whom Francisco Roldan sent, and who wished to go of their own will, the Admiral distributed enslaved people, three to some, and to others one, as seemed to him. At this time the Admiral was resolved to go to Castile and take the Adelantado with him, as I understood, to inform the Sovereigns of all that had passed with this Roldan, fearing what he did not know was prepared for him, and in great measure he would have been right, as will be seen below; …