In this part of the story, Mary Seacole saw the people of Cruces acting as theives. Those who were captured were sent to Carthagena. Indeed when they arrive, they are subjected to suffer imporisonment, this is thanks to the New Granada, who would make sure that these theives were subjegated in the end. "Whenever an American was arrested by the New Granada authorities, justice had a hard struggle for the mastery, and rarely obtained it" (pg. 45). New Granada was the title of the SPanish colonial administration of what is now known as the republic of Colombia.