The monarchs remove Columbus from government, which Las Casas calls divine judgment

In what, then, did he offend, and whom of the Spaniards who were there, and the Sovereigns, did he disserve, after he left here until he returned, and in the labors and care that he had while the winning back and reduction of Roldan lasted, that on the 21st of May he should be reading, with anguish of his soul, the letter of Alonso Sánchez de Carvajal, how Roldan was not fulfilling the agreement to go in the two caravels with his rebels to Castile, and that here, the same year, month and day, the Sovereigns should sign the provisions to take the governance from him, and that consequently all the other disastrous and unhappy ills and harms should follow him (death excepted), and that the services so beyond recompense in the past, and this present one so great, as having discovered the mainland and the gold newly found in it, and moreover the pearls that until then had not appeared, and they could hope that from there too would come other stones and precious things, should not be enough to move the Sovereigns not to overthrow him altogether? …