The story of Columbus . e the leader of the many malcon-tents in the island. In the first place, he and his fol-lowers made a plot to kill Bartholomew at the executionof the Spaniard who had stolen the wife of Guarionex,this criminal having been a friend of Roldans. AsBartholomew finally pardoned the fellow, the plot fellthrough. When the caravel which brought the bread and cot-ton from Xaragua had been unloaded Don Bartholo-mew had her drawn up on shore, perhaps because hefeared the malcontents would run away with her. Therebels demanded that the ship should be launched,and Bartholomew Columb
The story of Columbus . e the leader of the many malcon-tents in the island. In the first place, he and his fol-lowers made a plot to kill Bartholomew at the executionof the Spaniard who had stolen the wife of Guarionex,this criminal having been a friend of Roldans. AsBartholomew finally pardoned the fellow, the plot fellthrough. When the caravel which brought the bread and cot-ton from Xaragua had been unloaded Don Bartholo-mew had her drawn up on shore, perhaps because hefeared the malcontents would run away with her. Therebels demanded that the ship should be launched,and Bartholomew Columbus refused to launch her. SoRoldan and seventy men presently marched out of Isa-bella and wandered about the country, making trouble 206 THE STORY OF COLUMBUS. with tlie Indians. Don Bartholomew dared not cometo an open light with them because of the discontentamong his own men, who might at any moment deserthim. Meanwhile the Indians at a distance took advan-tage of the troubles to leave off paying tribute, and % ^^. ^. WELL AT SANTO DOMINGO, WHERE SHIPS GET WATER, SAID TO HAVE BEENBUILT BY BARTHOLOMEW COLUMBUS. Bartholomew Columbus thought best to excuse thosewho were near at hand, as he was afraid that they wouldjoin Eoldan if he did not. Ships arrived from Spain in February, 1498, withfresh soldiers and provisions. At this time Don Bar-tholomew was shut up in Fort Concepcion, with verylittle chance for getting food, and Roldan was about to A REBELLION AND A WAR. ^Q^ besiege him. The tables were turned when tlie shipsarrived. Don Bartholomew took most of his troopsover to Santo Domingo, Roldan and the rebels follow-ing. Bartholomew promised forgiveness to the rebelsif they would return to duty, but perhaps Roldan didnot believe that he would be forgiven. At any rate,he marched off with his men to Xarao:ua, which wasthought to be a kind of paradise, since BartholomewColumbus had been so well treated there. The rebellion of Roldan had encouraged the Indiansto make fresh tronbl
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