“they should be good servants and very intelligent . . . and I believe that they would easily be made Christians, for they appeared to me to have no religion.” He decided to take six of them prisoner to bring back to Ferdinand and Isabella, “so that they can learn to speak.”47 And he planted the Spanish flag on their island, to signal that he had taken possession of it on behalf of the Catholic Monarchs. Then he set off to find out what else there was to claim.
