from San Lucar, with six vessels, for his third voy-
age. He took a still more southerly route this time,
and stopped at Cape Verde. Leaving there July 4th,
he had a hard voyage, and was in distress for water
when on the last day of the month three peaks that
seemed to blend in one were descried in the distance.
In devout thankfulness he made for this
new land, and named it L a Trinidad, T h e Trini
t y .” He entered the Gulf of Paria by the southern
channel, lingered long enough to supply his immediate
wants, and passed out to the north. The
capes and headlands of the South American coast
he took to be islands, and gave them little heed.
On his way northward, hastening back to his colony
on Española, he discovered the islands of Margarita,
Grenada, which he called Ascension, and St. V in cent.
.
B y the end of Au gust Columbus was again at Isabella.
T h e colonists had reduced all that part of
the island to subjection, and had founded the city
of Santo Domingo on the southern coast, but they
had been quarrelling among themselves, one Roldan
having headed a revolt against Bartolomeo Colon,
the Admiral’s brother. The matter was composed
by giving Roldan an office and dividing land and
labourers, practically slaves, among his followers.
Some, however, went home to Spain, taking two
shiploads of slaves along, which so incensed the
Queen that they were all set free. But the e x colonists
fomented trouble for Columbus, and as the
colony had proved a disappointment, the promised
streams of gold failing to reach the treasury, FranTHE
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cisco de Bobadilla was sent out to investigate, and
was made governor in place of the discoverer. He
took a letter directing all forts and arms to be turned
over to him, and arrived in Hispaniola, October,
1500.
Ojeda had been making trouble by trying to seize
authority, but had been suppressed; the natives had
been gathered about the military stations to be
Christianised, and gold-hunting was active ; but
Bobadilla proceeded to give things a new turn. He
sent Columbus home in chains, but his harsh and
high-handed methods produced a reaction, and N ic olas
de Ovando was sent out to supersede him, arriving
in the spring of 1502 with thirty ships. T he
vessel in which Bobadilla was sent back to Spain,
with considerable treasure, was lost in a storm. By
this time Isabella had been abandoned, and the capital
of the colony was established at Santo Domingo,
which had been founded by Bartolomeo Colon
in 1496 while his brother was absent between his
second and third voyages. T he city was named for
their father Dominico, the worthy weaver of Genoa,
or rather for his patron saint. A soldier named
Diaz had fled over the mountains from Isabella to
escape punishment for some offence, and got into
the good graces of a native woman near the southern
side of the island, on the river Ozama, where he
found much gold. With this as a propitiatory offering
he returned to headquarters and was pardoned.
Bartolomeo Colon thereupon proceeded by water
to the southern coast and established a fort at the
mouth of the river in which Diaz had made his dis