 That said, finding fifty men willing to invest 200 ducats each and three years of unpaid work proved impossible for Las Casas.He ended up leaving in November 1520 with just a small group of peasants, paying for the venture with money borrowed from his brother in-law.Arriving in Puerto Rico, in January 1521, he received the terrible news that the Dominican convent at Chiribichi had been sacked by Indians, and that the Spaniards of the islands had launched a punitive expedition, led by Gonzalo de Ocampo, into the very heart of the territory that Las Casas wanted to colonize peacefully.