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however, that Ojeda departed either to some remote district of Hispaniola, or to the island of Porto Rico, where he made up what he called his Cavalgada, or drove of slaves ; carrying off numbers of the unhappy natives, whom he sold in the slave-mar足 ket of Cadiz.* * Las Casas, ib. i. cap. 169.