The most interesting fact about the truth about ‘Columbus’ and his and his sailors’ crimes is that many of the the most horrific accounts were recorded by Bartolome de las Casas, a Catholic priest and historian who described how he was ‘trembling’ with the savagery and ‘evil’ of their acts in the so-called ‘New World’: ‘In one day, de las Casas saw Columbus’ soldiers “dismember, behead or rape 3,000 natives.” As a result, de las Casas wrote, “My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature that now I tremble as I write.” There are many, many other accounts by eye witnesses — from literate shipmates to colonial officials — on the basis of which Columbus was sent back to Spain in chains, where he confessed to his atrocities.