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1498-11-17

Roldán signs articles at La Concepción letting each rebel keep one captive

Haitian

… Carvajal went to la Concepción, where they already were and were trying to take the fortress by besieging the Alcaide, for which they say they had cut off his water; but when Carvajal arrived, they moderated themselves. He dealt with Francisco Roldan and with the principal men, and at last with all, and they concluded certain articles, the end of which, and what the Admiral most desired, was that they should go to Castile, to remove from himself and from this island people already so corrupt and unruly, provided that the Admiral gave them two ships in the port of Xaraguá, well equipped, with provisions, and left each one of them an enslaved person and the concubines they had, pregnant and having given birth, in place of the enslaved people who were to be given them, and gave them a letter certifying that they had served well, and that some goods that had been taken from them be restored, and other like things. …

Source  ·  p. t. II, p. 356 Bartolomé de Las Casas, Historia de las Indias (t. II) (1875), p. t. II, p. 356