The words are, "that he is to be governor as long as it is their Highnesses' will and pleasure." Bobadilla, fortunately for the islanders, was forthwith to be superseded; for, if Columbus had chastised them with whips, Bobadilla was chastising them with scorpions.
His first object was the discovery of gold; and to secure this he took a census of the natives, and assigned them all as slaves to the colonists.

A large proportion of the latter, as we have seen, were simply the scourings of Spanish prisons; and the brutality with which these men treated their wretched helots was very terrible.

Some estimate of the amount of pressure employed may be formed from the fact that, although Bobadilla had reduced the royalty payable to the Sovereigns from one-third to one-eleventh of the gold found, this smaller proportion produced a larger revenue.

In other words, about four times as much gold was discovered under Bobadilla's system as under that of Columbus.
OVANDO AS GOVERNOR But when the Sovereigns heard of the cruelties which that system involved, they urged forward the departure of Ovando, whom they had selected as governor, and who, to judge from his previous career, was a man eminently fitted to rule justly and mercifully.

He was well known to Ferdinand and Isabella, having been chosen by the Queen as one of the companions for her eldest son, Prince John.