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At first glance, this vivid portrayal of the “Columbian Encounter” as seen through the eyes of Bartolome de Las Casas, is a ruthless realization to the brutality and callous behaviors exhibited by the Spanish conquerors in the New World. After further reading and continued analysis, it can be found that the audience is the populous that are unbiased to the cruel devastations Las Casas has personally witnessed. The officer of the King and later a …

…murder of the Native Americans on the islands of the West Indies. He vividly depicts the cruel beatings and murder of these “delicate people” by the Spanish Christians, while probably withholding possible reasons behind them. It is more then likely that Las Casas only showed the genial side of the natives so that the Spaniards brutality would be more easily recognizable to the uneducated people back home in Spain and in the rest of Europe.