Las Casas holds Columbus meant to sell Taíno captives in the Canaries

… For, according to the anxiety that the Admiral had that the Sovereigns should have profit, so that they might repay the expenses they had made, and not feel those they were making (from which proceeded great disfavor and abasement and almost annihilation of the business of these Indies, the Admiral’s rivals, whom he had never offended, taking occasion from it to bring him down, telling the Sovereigns that all that he affirmed and offered of the riches and gold of these Indies was a mockery, since they did nothing but spend on the wages of the people they sent here, and the provisions they supplied, and drew no profit at all from it, whence he feared that the Sovereigns would take their hands from the business, and thus his great labors, and anguishes, and bad nights, and worse days that he had suffered in the discoveries of these parts would perish, and he would remain or fall, from the estate to which God had raised him, in perpetual poverty and without shelter), I hold for certain that, had he not been hindered by the great adversity that came to him in the end, by enslaving these peoples unjustly and tyrannically, and taking them out and paying with them the people who came here, and sending money from them to the …