The Indian Races of North And South America Comprising An Account of the Princip
The Indian Races of North And South America Comprising An Account of the Princip
Charles De Wolf Brownell
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After thirty days of ineffectual attempts to re duce the place, he gave up the undertaking, and drew off his army. The stratagem by which the person of this noted chief and warrior was secured by the commandant at St. Thomas's, will be detailed hereafter. Columbus, upon his return to Hispaniola, made use of every effort to 32 562 INDIAN RACES OF AMERICA. check the ruinous disorders which had become prevalent. He punished Guatiguana by an invasion of his dominions and the destruction of no small... number of his people. An interview was then brought about with his superior, Guari- onex, a peaceable and well-disposed chief, who readily con sented to the establishment of a Spanish fort in the very heart of his domains. The crushing system of oppression had now fairly com menced, and was promptly followed up by the shipment of five hundred Indians to be sold as slaves in Spain. This was directly the act of Columbus himself, and histo rians only offer, as his excuse, the argument that such was the ordinary custom of his age in all wars with savages or infidels.
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