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1499-08-22

Columbus sails two ships west to Azua to deal with Roldán

Haitian

These safe-conducts having been dispatched to Francisco Roldan, so that Roldan might come the sooner to the agreement, and the business so desired and so necessary for the peace and quiet of this island be concluded, the Admiral resolved that they should find him nearer, as he was in his care to see everything pacified, and so he put himself into a ship on the 22nd day of August; he took another ship with him also, in which he took with him some principal persons, such as Pero Hernandez Coronel, Miguel Ballester, Alcaide, García de Barrantes, Alcaide, Juan Malaver, Diego de Salamanca, Juan Dominguez, a cleric, Alonso Medel, pilot, and Cristóbal Rodriguez, the interpreter, and many others, and he goes down the coast, toward the west, 20 or 25 leagues from this town, to the port called Azua, all of which was to get closer to them.

Source  ·  p. t. II, p. 362 Bartolomé de Las Casas, Historia de las Indias (t. II) (1875), p. t. II, p. 362