When after days it was done, and commandant must be chosen, the Viceroy's choice fell upon Pedro Margarite.

And that was great pity.
But he could not know Margarite then as afterwards he came to know him.
Fifty-six men he left with Margarite, and the rest of us marched home across the Vega and the northern mountains to Isabella.
Sickness.Quarrels.Idleness, vanity, dissensions and accusations.

Heat, more sickness, wild quarrels.
Tidings from Margarite at St.Thomas.The Indians would no longer bring food.

Caonabo was threatening from the higher mountains.

The Viceroy wrote to Margarite.