"King Ferdinand will change all matters in the West! Your islands shall have Governors, as many as necessary.

They shall refer themselves to a High Governor at San Domingo, who in his turn shall closely listen to a Council here." "Will the High Governor be Don Cristoval Colon ?" "No.

I hear that he himself agrees to a suspension of his viceroyalty for two years, seeing well that in Hispaniola is naught but faction, everything torn into 'Friends of the Genoese' and 'Not friends!'.
Perhaps he sees that he cannot help himself and that he less parts with dignity by acceding.

I do not know.

There is talk of Don Nicholas de Ovanda, Commander of Lares.