Of course things were very different in his time from what they are to-day, and people did not think so badly of this horrible business.
But some good men did, and spoke out boldly against it.

What they said was not of much use, however, and slavery was started in the new world.
And from that act of Columbus came much sorrow and trouble for the land he found.

Even the great war between the northern and southern sections of our own United States, upon one side or the other of which your fathers, or your grandfathers perhaps, fought with gun and sword, was brought about by this act of the great Admiral Columbus hundreds of years before.
So the twelve ships sailed back to Spain, and Columbus, with his five remaining ships, his soldiers and his colonists, remained in the new city of Isabella to keep up the hunt for gold or to become farmers in the new world..