. The storied West Indies . his privileges. Ii i:j. improbable, however, that King Ferdinand would have recognizedthese claims even then had not Don Diego strengthened his position by an illustrious marriage, withMaria de Toledo, daughter f the grand commanderof Leon, and niece of the ever-infamous Duke r>fAlva. In the year L5O0 the noble pair arrived hereas viceroy and vicereine oi Hispaniola, accompaniedby ;n Diego was warmly welcorned, and lost no time in erecting a castellatedpalace on the right bank of the Ozama, near its 120 THE STORIED WEST INDIES month, the ruins of which may yet be
. The storied West Indies . his privileges. Ii i:j. improbable, however, that King Ferdinand would have recognizedthese claims even then had not Don Diego strengthened his position by an illustrious marriage, withMaria de Toledo, daughter f the grand commanderof Leon, and niece of the ever-infamous Duke r>fAlva. In the year L5O0 the noble pair arrived hereas viceroy and vicereine oi Hispaniola, accompaniedby ;n Diego was warmly welcorned, and lost no time in erecting a castellatedpalace on the right bank of the Ozama, near its 120 THE STORIED WEST INDIES month, the ruins of which may yet be seen, a mass ofgray rock, still with the semblance of a castle, bntroofless and devoted to ignoble uses. The great citywall, fortified and battlemented, which was begunshortly before the palace, yet incloses the present capi-tal of the island, and the homenage, sl castle also builtin 1509, still claims attention as one of the finest. Interior of Santo Domingo church. specimens of its kind extant in this hemisphere. Thisis not the castle in which Columbus was confined inchains in 1500 (though often claimed as such), forthat was on the other side of the river, and long sincefell into ruin. But the chapel, from the doorway ofwhich Bobadilla proclaimed his authority for thearrest and imprisonment of Columbus, yet exists—or A CITY OF SAD MEMORIES 121 at least a portion of it—on the east bank, oppositeand overlooking the city. I have called this capital a city of sad mem-ories, because so many events happened here con-nected with the extinction of the Indians and thedeclining years of Columbus. His fortunes maybe said to have taken a downward turn at Isabella,in 1494, after he had sent home to slavery the fivehundred natives; but it was in connection withthis city of Santo Domingo that he experienced themost cruel reverses of his life. Hither he came atthe end of his third voyage, in 1498, after the dis-covery of Tr
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