[Works] . d ad-miration rather than revenge, eleven thousandpeople of both sexes, and of all ranks andages, many of them highly cultivated anddelicately reared, were suddenly torn fromtheir homes, severed from each other, andswept into menial slavery, even though halfof their ransoms had been paid. These cir-cumstances are not advanced to vindicate,but to palliate, the conduct of Columbus. Heacted but in conformity to the customs of thetimes, and was sanctioned by the example ofthe sovereigns under whom he served. I,asCasas, the zealous and enthusiastic advocateof the Indians, who suffers no o
[Works] . d ad-miration rather than revenge, eleven thousandpeople of both sexes, and of all ranks andages, many of them highly cultivated anddelicately reared, were suddenly torn fromtheir homes, severed from each other, andswept into menial slavery, even though halfof their ransoms had been paid. These cir-cumstances are not advanced to vindicate,but to palliate, the conduct of Columbus. Heacted but in conformity to the customs of thetimes, and was sanctioned by the example ofthe sovereigns under whom he served. I,asCasas, the zealous and enthusiastic advocateof the Indians, who suffers no opportunity toescape him of exclaiming in vehement termsagainst their slavery, speaks with indulgenceof Columbus on this head. If those piousand learned men, he observes, whom the sov-ereigns took for guides and instructors, wereso ignorant of the injustice of this practice, itis no wonder that the unlettered Admiralshould not be conscious of its impropriety.** Las Casas, Hist. Ind., torn, i., cap. 122, Cbapter D1F. EXPEDITION OP COLUMBUS AGAINST THE INDIANSOF THE VEGA—BATTLE. [1494.] NOTWITHSTANDING the defeat of theIndians by Ojeda, they still retainedhostile intentions against the Span-iards. The idea of their cacique beinga prisoner, and in chains, enraged the nativesof Maguana ; and the general sympathy man-ifested by other tribes of the island shows howwidely that intelligent savage had extendedhis influence, and how greatly he was had still active and powerful relatives re-maining to attempt his rescue or revenge hisfall. One of the brothers, Manicaotex byname, a Carib, bold and warlike as himself,succeeded to the sway over his subjects. Hisfavorite wife also, Anacaona, so famous for hercharms, had great influence over her brotherBehechio, cacique of the populous provinceof Xaragua. Through these means a violent279 28o Tlbe ILife anO IDogages ot and general hostility to the Spaniards wasexcited throughout the island, and the formi-dable league of the cac
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