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1492

CHAPTER XXXV
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The Viceroy hanged Moxica and seven with him, and threw into prison Guevara and Requelme.

Roldan, having had his long fling--too powerful still to hang or to chain in some one of our forts--Roldan wrote and received permission, and came to San Domingo, and was reconciled.
Suddenly, after long time of turmoil, wild adventure and uncertainty, peace descended.

Over all Hispaniola the Indians submitted.

Henceforth they were our subjects; let us say our victims and our slaves! Quarrels between Castilians died over night.

Miraculously the sky cleared.
Miraculously, or perhaps because of long, patient steering through storm.


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