'Destruction of the Indies'

'In the volume An Account. Much Abbreviated, Of The goal Of The Indies bishop De Las Casas writes to Don Felipe prince of entirely Spain to make him aware(predicate) of the wo(e)s and punishment the Spaniards did to the Indians on their conquests of the Islands. De Las Casas in the displace-off of the book explains w presentfore the Spaniards tortured and killed the Indians when they came to their land. The Spaniards hurte their gold when they make up out that the Indians were producing so much of it and in the end the Spaniards cherished their land. Las Casas says that the Indians never did any(prenominal) harm to the Spaniards and conception they were gods from the sky and here the Spaniards committed some(prenominal) acts of wrongful harm, theft, despatch and violence. These acts begin on the island of Hispaniola where the Spaniards would beat the Indians with their perfect(a) hands or sticks till they name the lords of the Indian villages. The police chief of t he Spaniards would violate the wife of the Indian king.\nIn the beginning the Indians would flake back but they were no chink for the Spaniards who rode on horses and had metallic element swords while the Indians had spears do out of sticks they had no chance and were in conclusion tanninged. The Spaniards spared no ace including no children or fraught(p) woman. The Spaniards were so cruel that they would piece open the tum of a pregnant woman and thusly hack the pander to pieces also they would invest wages on who might slice up open a man in one function of his sword. They would also cut the arms of the Indians and every hang them or burn them at the stake. The Indians that were fortunate to manage would go into the mountains and get across but the Spaniards would send hunting dogs into those mountains to slaughter them and whoever survived that and was found in the end became slaves to the Spaniards.\nThe Spaniards would eventually move on to get over the isl ands of San Juan and Jamaica where they would once again slaughter and torture the Indians and would take a...'