It is highly unlikely that these latter charges were preferred by a single colonist, unless, perhaps, by some man in religious orders.

The probability is, that they came from the other side of the water; and this does give considerable strength to the report, that the displeasure of the court with respect to the Admiral's proceedings against the Indians had to do with his removal from the government of the Indies.
If so, it speaks largely for the continued admirable intentions of the Spanish court in this matter.
Poor Columbus! His chains lay very heavily upon him.

He insisted, however, upon not having them taken off, unless by royal command, and would ever keep them by him, ("I always saw them in his room," says his son Ferdinand), ordering that they should be buried with him.

He did not know how many wretched beings would have to traverse those seas, in bonds much worse than his, with no room allowed them for writing, as was his case,--not even for standing upright; nor did he foresee, I trust, that some of his doings would further all this coming misery.

In these chains Columbus is of more interest to us than when in full power as governor of the Indies; for so it is, that the most infelicitous times of a man's life are those which posterity will look to most, and love him most for.