Note 289-1 — LETTER OF DR. CHANCA ON THE SECOND VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS

Las Casas, Historia de las Indias, II. 8, remarks of these bones, “They must have belonged to lords or persons whom they loved since it is not probable that they belonged to those they ate, because if they ate as many as some say, the cabins would not hold all the bones and skulls, and it seems that after having eaten them there would be no object in keeping the skulls and bones for relics unless they belonged to some very notable enemies. The whole matter is a puzzle.”