Destruction of the Indies

In the harbor An Account. Much Abbreviated, Of The demolition Of The Indies bishop De Las Casas writes to Don Felipe prince of all Spain to imprint him aware of the tortures and punishment the Spaniards did to the Indians on their conquests of the Islands. De Las Casas in the start-off of the book explains why the Spaniards tortured and killed the Indians when they came to their land. The Spaniards wanted their gold when they found pop that the Indians were producing so much of it and in the end the Spaniards wanted their land. Las Casas says that the Indians neer did any harm to the Spaniards and archetype they were gods from the sky and here the Spaniards attached many acts of wrongful harm, theft, performance and violence. These acts begin on the island of Hispaniola where the Spaniards would bind the Indians with their bare hands or sticks till they found the lords of the Indian villages. The captain of the Spaniards would violate the wife of the Indian king.\nIn the b eginning the Indians would fight back exactly they were no match for the Spaniards who rode on horses and had metal swords while the Indians had spears make out of sticks they had no run across and were at last lacinged. The Spaniards spared no atomic number 53 including no children or meaning(a) woman. The Spaniards were so cruel that they would fade equal to(p) the belly of a pregnant woman and thence hack the baby to pieces in addition they would place wages on who might slice open a man in one swing of his sword. They would as well cut the arms of the Indians and every hang them or shine them at the stake. The Indians that were fortunate to relief valve would go into the mountains and hide however the Spaniards would send hunting dogs into those mountains to trouncing them and whoever survived that and was found eventually became slaves to the Spaniards.\nThe Spaniards would eventually move on to confiscate the islands of San Juan and Jamaica where they would once ag ain slaughter and torture the Indians and would take a...