Torres sails from Isabela with over 500 captives for sale in Castile

In these days the Admiral sent to make war on the cacique or king Guatigana, because he had ordered the 10 Christians killed, and among his people the Christians made a cruel slaughter, and he fled. Many people were taken alive, of whom he sent more than 500 to Castile to be sold into slavery, in the four ships that Antonio de Torres brought, and Torres departed with them for Castile on 24 February 1495. From then on the Spaniards made this resolution, which they kept as an inviolable law, that for each Christian the Indians killed the Christians must kill 100 Indians; and would to God that those they ripped open and killed for one had not passed 1,000, and without the Indians having killed any, as afterward, inhumanly, I saw many times. …