Anacaona was afterwards hanged and the province was desolated.
Humanity does not gain much, after all, by this man's not taking the title of "Lordship" which he had a right to.
Finally, the governor collected the former followers of Roldan in Xaragua, and formed a town of their settlement, which he named "the city of the true peace" (La villa de la vera Paz), but which a modern chronicler well says might more properly havc been named "Aceldama, the field of blood." I observe that the arms assigned to this new settlement were a dove with the olive-branch, a rainbow, and a cross.
FERDINAND'S LETTER TO COLUMBUS But it is time to return to Columbus, who in the mean time was chafing at the inactivity which had been forced upon him.

His was a restless spirit, perhaps too restless for an organizer, who ought to possess an inexhaustible amount of patience, and to be able to wait as well as to labour.

He had formed a theory that some strait existed through which a passage might be made from the neighbourhood of St.Domingo to those regions in Asia from which the Portuguese were just beginning to reap a large profit, and which must be very near that home of the gold which had always occupied his thoughts.

He pressed the Sovereigns to provide him with ships for an expedition having for its special object the discovery of this strait; and on the occurrence of some delay as to the equipment of vessels for the purpose, he seems to have written to Ferdinand, reproaching him with the treatment which he had received, and with the want of confidence manifested towards him now.

To this Ferdinand answered in a letter which was certainly well calculated to soothe the Admiral's indignation.