as the Admiral relates in his logbook, “I was very attentive to them, and strove to learn if they had any gold. Seeing some of them with little bits of metal hanging at their noses, I gathered from them by signs that by going southward or steering round the island in that direction, there would be found a king who possessed great cups full of gold, and in large quantities.”3 For “of gold is treasure made, and with it he who has it does as he wills in the world and it even sends souls to Paradise.”
Emphasis on the intense focus on draining the land of Latin America of its resources from the very beginning
