The confederacy might then go to pieces.

In the meantime use every effort to detach from it Gwarionex who after Guacanagari was our nearest great cacique.

Send a well-guarded, placating embassy to him and to Cotubanama.

Try kindness, kindness everywhere, kind words and good deeds!--And build another fort called Fort Concepcion.
Take Caonabo! That was a task for Alonso de Ojeda! He did it.

Five days after the council, the Viceroy being now recovered and bringing strength to work that needed strength, the Adelantado vigorously helping, Isabella in a good mood, the immediate forest all a gold and green peacefulness, Don Alonso vanished, and with him fourteen picked men, all mounted.
For six weeks it was as though he had dropped into the sea, or risen into the blue sky above eyesight.
Then on a Sunday he and his fourteen rode into town.