No, Hatuey insisted, “not alone for this [reason], but because they have a God whom they greatly adore and love; and to make us adore Him they strive to subjugate us and take our lives.” Hatuey gestured to a basket of gold and intoned, “Behold here is the God of the Christians.” To get rid of the newcomers they had to get rid of the gold, Hatuey concluded. Then he threw the basket into the river.14
