It must be said, in justice to Ovando, that this does not look as if he thought the matter were a light one.

Xaragua was seventy leagues from St.Domingo.
The governor set out well accompanied, with seventy horsemen and three hundred foot soldiers.
HIS RECEPTION BY ANACAONA.
Anacaona, who had some suspicion of his intentions, summoned all her feudatories around her "to do horour" to him, when she heard of his coming.

She went out to meet Ovando with a concourse of her subjects, and with the same festivities of singing and dancing as in former days she had adopted when she went to receive the Adelantado.

Various pleasures and amusements were provided for the strangers, and probably Anacaona thought that she had succeeded in soothing and pleasing this severe looking governor, as she had done the last.

But the former followers of Roldan were about the governor, telling him that there certainly was an insurrection at hand, that if he did not look to it now, and suppress it at once, the revolt would be far more difficult to quell when it did break out.