Let us put less distance there, being few in this land and in danger!" He knew that he had a dozen with him, and looked straight at Escobedo.
The latter said, "Live in the open and die there, if need be! To live in this rat hole, breathing plague, is dying already! Caonabo is a fable! These people! Spaniards have but to lift voice and they flee!" He received from his following acquiescent sound.

Spoke Pedro Gutierrez.
"Guacanagari wishes to bottle us here; that is the whole of it.

Why play his game?
I never saw a safer land! Only La Navidad is not safe!" Those two had half and perhaps more than half of the garrison.

Arana cried, "Don Roderigo de Escobedo and Don Pedro Gutierrez, you serve the Queen ill!" "You, Senor," answered Gutierrez, "serve my Lady Idle Fear and my Lord Incapacity!" Whereupon Arana put him in arrest and he lay that night in prison.

The cloud was black over La Navidad..