At the conclusion of these manoeuvres the ship was loaded with bread, roots, and other gifts, and the Adelantado after offering them some presents took leave of Beuchios Anacauchoa and his sister, their followers and servants of both sexes.  The impression left upon the latter by this visit was stupefying.  The Spaniards marched overland and returned to Isabella.  On arriving there, it was learned that a certain Ximenes Roldan, formerly chief of the miners and camp-followers, whom the Admiral had made his equerry and raised to the grade of chief justice, was ill-disposed towards the Adelantado.  It was simultaneously ascertained that the Cacique Guarionex, unable longer to put up with the rapacity of Roldan and the other Spaniards at Isabella, had been driven by despair to quit the country with his family and a large number of his subjects, taking refuge in the mountains which border the northern coast only ten leagues to the west of Isabella.  Both these mountains and their inhabitants bear the same name, Ciguaia.  The chief of all the caciques inhabiting the mountain region is called Maiobanexios, who lived at a place called Capronus.  These mountains are rugged, lofty, inaccessible, and rise from the sea in a semicircle.  Between the two extremities of the chain, there lies a beautiful plain, watered by numerous rivers which rise in these mountains.  The natives are ferocious and warlike, and it is thought they are of the same race as the cannibals, for when they descend from their mountains to fight with their neighbours in the plain, they eat all whom they kill.  It was with the cacique of these mountains that Guarionex took refuge, bringing him gifts, consisting of things which the mountaineers lack.  He told him that the Spaniards had spared him neither ill-treatment nor humiliation nor violence, while neither humility nor pride had been of the least use in his dealings with them.  He came, therefore, to him as a suppliant, hoping to be protected against the injustice of these criminals.  Maiobanexios promised him help and succour to the extent of his power.

Hastening back to La Concepcion the Adelantado summoned Ximenes Roldan, who, accompanied by his adherents, was prowling amongst the villages of the island, to appear before him.  Greatly irritated, the Adelantado asked him what his intentions were.  To which Roldan impudently answered:  “Your brother, the Admiral is dead, and we fully understand that our sovereigns have little care for us.  Were we to obey you, we should die of hunger, and we are forced to hunt for provisions in the island.  Moreover, the Admiral confided to me, as well as to you, the government of the island; hence, we are determined to obey you no longer.”  He added other equally misplaced observations.  Before the Adelantado could capture him, Roldan, followed by about seventy men, escaped to Xaragua in the western part of the island, where, as the Adelantado reported to his brother, they gave themselves over to violence, thievery, and massacre.[7]