Priests expected to be put on better diet than any other people.

Columbus--though he lost his own popularity--insisted on putting all on equal fare, in sharing the supplies he had brought from Spain.

It did not require a long time to prove that the selection of the site of the colony was unfortunate.
Columbus himself gave way to the general disease.

While he was ill, a mutiny broke out which he had to suppress by strong measures.
Bornal Diaz, who ranked as comptroller of the expedition, and Fermin Cedo, an assayer, made a plot for seizing the remaining ships and sailing for Europe.

News of the mutiny was brought to Columbus.