The natives love their neighbors as themselves; their conversation is the sweetest imaginable; their faces smiling; and so gentle and so affectionate are they, that I swear to Your Highness there is not a better people in the world." Does it not seem a pity that so great a man should have acted so meanly toward these innocent people who loved and trusted him so?
For it was Columbus who first stole them away from their island homes and who first thought of making them slaves to the white men..