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1498-10-17

Roldán and three rebel leaders renounce service to Columbus in writing

Haitian

… nor could they gild or color in any way the cause they alleged for not coming to agreement and terms, that the raid be given to them. Having taken occasion and pretext from this their new obstinacy in demanding the raid (I say new obstinacy, because the friends he had with the Admiral had earnestly begged the Admiral to pardon him, and the Admiral believed that Roldan and his men were drawing near in order the sooner to come to his obedience and kiss his hands), Roldan and three others, the principal ones, who were properly servants of the Admiral and earned his pay, resolve to desist and renounce being his servants and the pay they earned, alleging many pretexts, and these were Roldan, and Adriano, and Pedro Gamez, and Diego de Escobar, who wrote him the following letter:

Source  ·  p. t. II, pp. 327, 328 Bartolomé de Las Casas, Historia de las Indias (t. II) (1875), p. t. II, pp. 327, 328