One of Columbus' crewmen, Miguel Cuneo, described the scene when Columbus arrived in Hispaniola for a second time, and thousands of Tainos, or what were referred to as Indians, came out to greet his ships.
Cuneo wrote, "When our caravels...were to leave for Spain, we gathered...one thousand six hundred male and female persons of those Indians...For those who remained, we let it be known [to the Spaniards] in the vicinity that anyone who wanted to take some of them could do so, to the amount desired, which was done."
Cuneo went on to write that he took his own sex slave, a beautiful teenage girl, who in his own words, "resisted with all her strength," leaving him with no choice but to, "thrash her mercilessly and rape her."
Columbus eventually started up a global child-sex-slave trade, exporting Indians all around the world.
