DOMINGO.
Charged with these instructions, then, Nicholas de Ovando left the port of San Lucas on the 13th of February, 1502, to take possession of his new government, having under him a gallant company of two thousand five hundred persons, a large proportion of them being hidalgoes.

On his way he met with a terrible storm, in which one of his largest vessels foundered, and he had some difficulty in reaching St.Domingo at all.

This, however, he succeeded in doing on the 15th of April, and entered at once upon the reforms which he was commissioned to institute.
OVANDO'S ADMINISTRATION He announced the residencia of Bobadilla, and placed Roldan under arrest.
He exerted himself to found settlements along the coast, and at first, no doubt, he endeavoured to carry out the merciful directions which he had received with regard to the Indians.

But, like Bobadilla, he was a knight of a religious order, with a certain narrow way of looking at things incident to his profession, with no especial culture that we know of, and with little originality of character.

In these respects he presented a remarkable contrast to Columbus, who was a man of various accomplishments, large minded, enthusiastic, fluent, affectionate, inventive.