And I believed, and I (still) believe, that they came there from the mainland to take them for captives.
"They would be good servants, and of good disposition, for I see that they repeat very quickly everything which is said to them.

And I believe that they could easily be made Christians, for it seems to me that they have no belief.

I, if it please our Lord, will take six of them to your Highnesses at the time of my departure, so that they may learn to talk.

No wild creature of any sort have I seen, except parrots, in this island." All these are the words of the Admiral, says Las Casas.

The journal of the next day is in these words: Saturday, October 13.