The young men either perished in fighting against fearful odds, or were slaughtered after yielding as prisoners.

Those who sought to fly to Africa found the avenues of escape blocked by the pitiless Toledo blades.

The aged were hunted down like wild beasts; the women and young children were sold into slavery, to toil under the lash or to share the hated bed of the conqueror.

The massacre cost Spain 60,000 lives and three million ducats, not to speak of the harm that it did to her spirit.
[1] A Portuguese in Spanish service.
SECTION 2.

EXPLORATION [Sidenote: Division of the New World between Spain and Portugal] When Columbus returned with glowing accounts of the "India" he had found, the value of his work was at once appreciated.