The repartimiento had now grown to its second state--not lands only, but lands and the tillage of them.

We shall yet find that there is a further step in this matter, before the repartimiento assumes its utmost development.

It seems, too, that in addition to these repartimientos, Columbus gave slaves to those partizans of Roldan who stayed in the island.

Others of Roldan's followers, fifteen in number, chose to return to Spain; they received a certain number of slaves, some one, some two, some three; and the admiral sent them home in two vessels which left the port of St.Domingo at the beginning of October, 1499.
THE QUEEN'S ANGER; PARTIAL RELEASE OF SLAVES.
On the arrival in Spain of these vessels, the Queen was in the highest degree angered by the above proceedings, and said that the admiral had received no authority from her to give her vassals to anyone.

She accordingly commanded proclamation to be made at Seville, Granada, and other places, that all persons who were in possession of Indians, given to them by the admiral, should, under pain of death, send those Indians back to Hispaniola, "and that particularly they should send back those Indians, and not the others who had been brought before, because she was informed that the others had been taken in just war." The former part of this proclamation has been frequently alluded to, and no doubt it deserves much praise; but from the latter part it is clear that there were some Indians who could justly, according to Queen Isabella, be made slaves.