[374-3] Ferdinand de Guevara. See Irving, Columbus, II. 283 et seqq.
[374-4] I.e., maravedis, equivalent to about $4000.
[375-1] Bobadilla, the successor of Columbus as governor, who sent him back in chains.
[375-2] A mark was eight ounces or two-thirds of a Troy pound. Here it is probably the silver mark as a measure of value, which was about $3.25. If the word is used as a measure of weight of gold, it would be about $150.
[375-3] Bobadilla arrived at Santo Domingo August 23, 1500.
[375-4] Bartholomew Columbus.
[377-1] Juan Aguado arrived from Spain in October, 1495. Las Casas, Historia de las Indias, II. 109 et seqq., gives a full account of his mission. See also Irving, Columbus, ed. 1868, II. 77 et seqq.
[378-1] Cf. Daniel, chs. III. and VI.
[378-2] The castellano was one-sixth of an ounce, or in value about $3.
[378-3] See Bourne, Spain in America, p. 50, for Columbus’s bitter characterization of the Spaniards in Española in 1498, and p. 46 for the royal authorization in June, 1497, to transport criminals to the island. The terrible consequences of this policy led the Spanish government later to adopt the strictest regulations controlling emigration to the New World. Cf. Spain in America, ch. XVI.