Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia

roceed with his discoveries, and the king and queen gave o

d artificers of all kinds were engaged for the projected colonies, and an ample supply was provided of whatev

vered, and particularly the intelligence that they abounded with gold, excited the avarice and rapacity of the Spania

teered to enlist, and many got on board of the ships by stealth, so that about 150

nd voyage presented a brilliant contr

d of being regarded by the populace as devoted men, were looked upon with envy as favoured mortals, destine

d, favoured by the trade winds, was borne pleasantly along, till, on the 2nd of November, a lofty island w

ered with forests and enlivened by the flight of parrots and other tropical birds, whi

gave the name of Guadaloupe, they first met wi

Hayti, to which he had given the name

had accompanied him to Spain. He dismissed him finely apparelled, and loaded with trinkets, thinking he would imp

tched for the dawn of day with the greatest anxiety; when at last the approach of the morning sun rendering the objects on shore visible, in the place where the fort had stood, noth

hey found it burnt and demolished, the palisades beaten down, and the

them as they expected, like friends, but fled

Spain, when all his counsels and commands faded from the minds of those who remained behind. Instead of cultivating the good-will of the natives, they endeavoured, by all kinds of

intemperance, some fell in brawls between themselves about their ill-gotten spoil, and others were cut of

ace, and it was considered by the superstitious mariners as under some baneful influence. The situation wa

olony to be immediately disembarked, together with the stores, ammunition, and all the cattle and live-stock, he traced out the plan of a town in a large plain near a spaci

unded in the new world, he named Isabella, in

they submitted in silence, and dissembled their sorrow; but now that the Spaniards had built a town-now that they had du

asily satisfied with the fruits of the island, which, with a handful of maize or a li

cessively voracious. One Spaniard consumed as much as several Indians; this keenness of appetite appeared so insatiable, that they supposed the Spaniar

command of the military force to Margaritta, and set sail with three vessels to extend his discoveries; but, after a lo

ted, he returned to his new settlement, but the

a dispersed in straggling parties over the island, lived at discretion upon the natives, waste

pain, and these accusations gained such credit in that jealous court, that Aguado, a person in every w

on of the discontented Spaniards, and fomented sti

ctor to observe his motions and control his authority; he therefore took the resolution of retu

to Don Bartholomew, his brother, he appointed Roldan Chief Justic

h the confidence of a man, not only conscious of having

ccusations, received him with such marks of respect as silenced the

mines which he had found, fully proved the value and importance of his discoveries, th