All his people would follow Guacanagari.

He saw Christendom here in the west, and a great feudal society, acknowledging Castile for overlord, and Alexander the Sixth as its spiritual ruler.
Guacanagari may have seen friends in the gods, and especially in this their cacique, who with others that they would bring, would be drawn into Guarico and made one and whole with the people of the heron.

But he never saw Guacanagari displanted--never saw Europe armed and warlike, hungry and thirsty.
The _Nina_ and La Navidad bade with tears each the other farewell.

It was the second of January, fourteen hundred and ninety-three.

We had mass under the palm trees, by the cross, above the fort.