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Las Casas describes the Natives as “gentle lambs” and as “never quarrelsome or belligerent or boisterous, they harbor no grudges and do not seek to settle old scores” and so on. He describes the Spaniards as the complete, opposite saying they behaved like tigers and lions. He also says that “the diabolical behavior of the Christians has, led to the unjust and totally unwarranted deaths of more than twelve million souls”. Las Casas goal was to inform the King of Spain and get him to act against the horrible acts being committed in the New World by his subjects. He describes the Natives in this way to show that they were the main victims of the settling and conquering of the New World.

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