Writing so, I can say with greater freedom that which should be said." "What do you say ?" He told me with energy.

His letter related past events in Hispaniola and the arrival of Bobadilla and all that took place thereupon.

He had an eloquence of the pen as of speech, and what he said to Dona Juana de la Torre moved.

A high simplicity was his in such moment, an opening of the heart, such as only children and the very great attain.

He told his wrongs, and he prayed for just judgment, "not as a ruler of an ordered land where obtain old, known, long-followed laws, and where indeed disorder might cry 'Weakness and Ill-doing!' But I should be judged rather as a general sent to bring under government an enemy people, numerous, heathen, living in a most difficult, unknown and pathless country.