Put a comma after yes, and remove the comma after Colorado.
According to how the narrative is made, specifically how he tells us what he's done and his situation, it can be intuited that he was struggling in that time and needed to eat, so he had to steal some food but he was planning to return it as soon as possible.
<span>Well, it allowed them to garrison more troops there which led to an increase in slave commerce for the Portuguese traders. </span>
