When he arrived, however, it was to meet one of his triumphs.

He could hardly have expected it.
But his sufferings, and the sense of wrong that he had suffered, had, in truth, awakened the regard of the people of the colony.

Ovando took him as a guest to his house.

The people received him with distinction.
He found little to gratify him, however.

Ovando, had ruled the poor natives with a rod of iron, and they were wretched.