...should be good servants and of quick intelligence, since I see that they very soon say all that is said to them, and I believe that they would easily be made Christians, for it appeared to me that they had no creed. Our Lord willing, at the time of my departure I will...

...108-10. Northmen, Columbus, and Cabot, 985-1530 The Church in New Spain 37 tify, he also declared, "I believe that they would easily be made Christians, as it appeared to me that they had no religion." After returning to Spain, Columbus made a final entry in his journal (15 March 1493) voicing the same...

..."should be good servants and of quick intelligence, since I see that they very soon say all that is said to them, and I believe that they would easily be made Christians, for it appeared to me that they had no creed." Columbus believed not only that these people had no...

...he exploited. On meeting them, Columbus wrote: 'They should make very good servants, for I observed they quickly took in what was said to them, and I believe they would easily be turned into Christians.' This was the Europeans' other great aim: to spread the...

...he exploited. On meeting them, Columbus wrote: 'They should make very good servants, for I observed they quickly took in what was said to them, and I believe they would easily be turned into Christians.' This was the Europeans' other great aim: to spread the...

...make good servants and very intelligent, for I have observed that they soon repeat anything that is said to them, and I believe that they would easily be made Christians, for they appeared to me to have no religion ... I will bring half a dozen of them back to their Majesties,...

...ceremony in an equally strange language that Columbus takes time to mention later in the passage that "I observed that they quickly took in what was said to them". As Stephen Greenblatt points out, according to medieval concepts of natural law, only those territories...