margarite

Johnson, Webster, and Halliwell give margarite as an English word.

When after days it was done, and commandant must be chosen, the Viceroy's choice fell upon Pedro Margarite.

Fifty-six men he left with Margarite, and the rest of us marched home across the Vega and the northern mountains to Isabella.

Pedro Margarite was placed in command with fifty-six men, and then Columbus started to return to Isabella.

Margarite was also told that he must capture, by force or stratagem, the cacique Caonabo and his brothers.