w him to become a rich, powerful and famous man, consequently he started to search another source of revenue: he began to keep turning in his mind how this peaceful and timid hosts could be a source of profit. According to his journal, on October 14,1492, he wrote: "When your Highness so command, they (the Natives) could all be carried off to Castile or be held captive in the island itself because with 50 men they could all be subjugated and compelled to do anything one wishes." "By December 16, his ideas in that respect had taken definitive form. "They have no weapons and are all naked without any skill in arms and are very cowardly so that a thousand would challenge three," says the journal for that date. [...]"Thus they are useful to be commanded and to be mad to labor and sow and to be everything else of which there is need and build towns and be taught to wear clothes and learn our customs." " Besides his adventurous spirit of Renaissance, his other side corresponding to exploit the people has emerged. The last thing he di
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