The battle also would have continued longer, if the king had not, at the request of our men, caused them to cease." OVANDO VISITS XARAGUA.
At this time, in the year 1503, some of Roldan's former partizans were settled in the province of Xaragua, and were a great trouble to the colony.

Herrera says, in a quiet sarcastic way, "they lived in the discipline they had learnt from Roldan;" and the governing powers of Xaragua found them "intolerable." He also adds that Anacaona's people were in policy, in language, and in other things superior to all the other inhabitants of the island.

As might be expected, there were constant disturbances between these Spaniards and the adjacent Indians; and the Spaniards took care to inform the governor that their adversaries, the Indians of Xaragua, intended to rebel.

Perhaps they did so intend.

Ovando resolved, after much consultation, to take a journey to Xaragua.