12/21 But the heat was great, and so many of those left at La Navidad only idle and sensual. They would push on to a village--we found in Guacanagari's country many hamlets, but no other town like Guarico--and there they would stop, with new women, new talk, and the endless plenty to eat and sleep in the shade. When, at their own sweet will, they returned to La Navidad, the difficulties had been too great. They could not get to the high mountains where might or might not be the mines. But what they did was to spread over the country scandalous news of scandalous gods. |