But always they said Cibao for gold.
We rode and marched afoot, with many halts and turns aside, five leagues across plain.

A large river barred our way,--the Yaqui they called it.

Here we spent two days in a village a bowshot from the water.

We searched for gold, we sent from Indian to Indian rumor that it was the highest magic, god-magic that of all things in the world we most desired and took it from their hands, yet still we paid for it in goods for which they lusted, and we neither forced nor threatened force.

And though we were four hundred, yet there might be in the Royal Plain forty thousand, and their hue and their economy was yet prince in the land, and the Spaniard a visitor.