They talked beneath the big tree, that being the most comfortable and commodious council chamber.

Don Diego was imperfect yet in the tongue of Guarico, and he called Juan Lepe to help him out.
It was a story of Caonabo, cacique of Maguana that ran into the great mountains of Cibao, that cacique of whom we had already heard as being like Caribs.

Caonabo had sent quite secretly two of his brothers to Guacanagari.

He had heard ill of the strangers and thought they were demons, not gods! He advised the cacique of Guarico to surprise them while they slept and slay them.

It was in his experience that all who ate and slept could be slain.