On Hearing This Melancholy Account, Olano Relented, And
Immediately Sent Back The Boat With Provisions And Refreshments, Which
Came Very Opportunely To Save Nicuessa And His Men From Starving, Which
They Certainly Must Have Done Without This Seasonable Relief.
Yet this did
not in the least soften his resentment against Olano for deserting him,
whom he would have hanged, if he had not been afraid of irritating the men,
and instead of that he put him in irons, threatening to send him to Spain
in that condition.
The authority, however, did not remain long in his
hands; for, endeavouring to establish a settlement on the Bethlehem
river, he was so straitened for provisions, that he was obliged to leave a
part of his men there, and to sail with the rest to Porto Bello; but, not
being allowed by the Indians to land there, he was obliged to proceed four
or five leagues farther to the port which Columbus named Bastimentos.
Immediately on entering he exclaimed, Paremos aqui en el nombre de Dios,
Let us stay here in the name of God. He immediately landed and began to
erect a fortress, which was named Nombre de Dios, from the above
mentioned expression. He had not been long here till he found himself as
much straitened for provisions as at Bethlehem, on which account he sent
one of his ships to St Domingo to request assistance from the governor.
Scarcely was this vessel out of the port, before that with Colmenares
arrived from the river Darien, with the invitation to take the command of
the Spanish colony at that place.
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