What was made of them, almost ere Columbus was dead, may be judged from this one story, taken from Las Casas:--{155} 'There was a certain man named Juan Bono, who was employed by the members of the Audiencia of St.Domingo to go and obtain Indians.

He and his men, to the number of fifty or sixty, landed on the Island of Trinidad.

Now the Indians of Trinidad were a mild, loving, credulous race, the enemies of the Caribs, who ate human flesh.

On Juan Bono's landing, the Indians, armed with bows and arrows, went to meet the Spaniards, and to ask them who they were, and what they wanted.

Juan Bono replied, that his crew were good and peaceful people, who had come to live with the Indians; upon which, as the commencement of good fellowship, the natives offered to build houses for the Spaniards.