Under heavy penalties emigration was restricted by royal decrees to those who procured permission to go.

In the autumn of the same year fifteen hundred men, soldiers, courtiers, priests and laborers, accompanied the discoverer on his second voyage, in radiant hopes.

But instead of wealth and high adventure these Argonauts met hard labor and sickness.

Instead of the rich cities of Japan and China sought for, there were found squalid villages of Caribs and Lucayans.

Of gold there was little, of spices none.
Columbus, when planting his colony at Isabella, on the northern coast of Hispaniola (Hayti), promptly found need of draught animals and other equipment.