How the Spaniards behaved with Amerindians?

Spaniards, who came into this land of American Indians, behaved like ravening wild beasts, wolves, tigers, or lions that had been starved for many days. They killed, terrorised, afflicted, tortured and destroyed the native people with strangest and most varied new methods of cruelty, never seen or heard before and to such a degree that various regions of Americas, once so populous has been wiped off. Native people were slain or died after being taken into captivity and sold as slaves. When Spaniards saw that some of these had escaped, they sent a ship to find them and it voyaged for three years among the islands searching for those who had escaped being slaughtered. Most of the islands and other regions were depopulated and the land laid waste in the same way. Nearly 40 years of such massacre was conducted on American islands by the time the author had wrote this book and according to the estimate of the author, more than 12million people were killed by Spaniards.

Spaniards used to kill maximum number of people, especially the native rulers and the young men, and the women and children were subjugated to the hardest and bitterest servitude ever suffered by man or beast. Their reason for killing and destroying such an infinite number of souls is that the Christians have an ultimate aim, which is to acquire gold and to swell themselves with riches in a very brief time and thus rise to a high estate disproportionate to their merits. Their insatiable greed and ambition, the greatest ever seen in the world, is the cause of their villainies. American land was so rich and felicitous, the local people so meek and patient, so easy to subject, that Spaniards had no more consideration for them than beasts. Spaniards treated local Indians as excrement on the public squares and thus they have deprived the Indians of their lives and souls, for the millions died without the Faith and without the benefit of sacraments. Never had the Indians in all the Indies committed any act against the Spanish Christians until those Christians have first and many time committed countless cruel aggressions against them or against neighbouring nations. For in the beginning, the Indians regarded Spaniards as angels from Heaven. Only after Spaniards used violence against them, killing, robbing, torturing, did the Indians ever rise up against them.