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In the early days of Spanish colonial exploration of the American continent, a large number of explorers emerged, one of them, Martin Fernández de Ensiso (hereinafter referred to as "Nsiso"), who was a companion and patron of the famous Spanish explorer Alonso de Ochda.
Ensiso was originally a successful lawyer on the island of Hispaniola, and his family was rich by helping people fight lawsuits, but this person was also quite interested in exploration and speculation, which made Ohda only slightly tempt him to put Ensisola on his "thief ship", so that he resolutely gave up his stable career with a considerable income and devoted all his family to support Oheda's exploration and colonization activities.
The two sides agreed that Oheda would take the lead in leading the expedition ship and some manpower and supplies to explore the coastal area of Central America and find a suitable place to establish a colony, while Ensiso would stay on the island of Hispaniola to continue to collect crew and supplies, wait until everything was ready, and wait for Ohda to send back the news before setting off for the colony to discuss the grand plan. In order to retain Nsiso, Ojeda also promised him the high position of the first mayor and chief justice of the future colonial government, which made Nçiso very excited.
Expeditionary fleet of the Spaniards
But the dream is beautiful, the reality is bone-chilling, the ambitious Ojeda suffered a lot in Central America, even planted his head, let alone robbed and made a fortune, and his expedition was even extremely difficult to survive, and could be destroyed at any time under the siege and grain shortage of local Indians. About Ohda's encounters and experiences, I have written a lot in previous articles, I will not repeat them here, interested friends please search in my homepage.
Ensiso could not wait for any news from Ojeda on the island of Hispaniola, and in the end he could not bear it, so he could only lead his men out to sea to search, they searched all the way along the coastline, carefully looking for Ojeda's traces.
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Because they were all driving in one direction along the Central American coastline, Ensiso and his party also arrived at a port where Ohda had landed, the port of Cartagena. This was ohda's sad place, where he fought bloody battles with the local fierce Indians, suffered heavy losses, and even his most important friend died under the poisonous arrows of the local Indians, and he himself was only revenge once, and then he slipped away under the gaze of the Indians who hated him.
Now that Nésiso, unaware of any of Ohda's experiences, came here, he couldn't help but sweat for him.
Seeing that the port of Cartagena was a good port, Ensiso did not hesitate to stop here, intending to replenish some fresh water and supplies here, repair the broken ships and search for news of Ohda.
And because of the Spanish invasion, the local Indians had long been very wary of outsiders, and they installed many sentries on the coast, so before Ensiso and the others could go ashore, a large group of Indians quietly gathered, holding weapons one by one, blowing trumpets from time to time, and waving weapons at Ensiso and others to intimidate, trying to scare Ensiso away with a large number of people.
landing
But even so, because of the bad condition of the ship, Ensiso and the others could only go ashore to search for supplies, even if the whole process was worrying, but fortunately, the Indians who had learned the Spanish power did not dare to act rashly, they just circled around the Spaniards, but they did not move.
The two sides suffered in this wordless confrontation, and finally the Spaniard side could not hold on, and two Spaniards took buckets to a river to get water, and the Indians who saw the Spaniards moving hurriedly surrounded them, they approached carefully from the bushes, and then suddenly jumped out and surrounded the two bold Spaniards.
The besieged Spaniards were terrified, for according to them at least eleven Indians had pointed their bows at them. However, the Indians only posed for battle, but did not launch an attack, the two sides were so deadlocked, the time passed minute by minute, and finally one of the Spaniards could not bear the silence and turned around to escape, but his companions shouted at him and began to talk to the Indians.
talk
This man knew some Indian language, and while making friendly gestures, he said a few words of friendship to the Indians, and the Indians were so surprised that they did not expect that the other party would speak their own national language, which was the first time.
After the communication, the tense atmosphere between the two sides finally eased, and the Indians began to question who the Spaniards were and what they had come here for. The Spaniards, who knew Indian languages, replied that they had come from far away and had suspended them for compulsive reasons, with no ill intentions, and did not understand why the Indians were so unfriendly to themselves and their companions. In addition, the Spaniard did not forget to intimidate the Indians, saying that if the Indians dared to move a hair of their own and inflict the slightest harm on themselves, their numerous and well-equipped companions would surely come to you for revenge.
Just as the two Spaniards were under siege, Ensiso, who had received the news, hurriedly led his men to rush off the ship with full armor and rush to save his companions, but when he hurried to arrive, the besieged Spaniards had already persuaded the Indians with their own eloquence.
By this time, Nsiso and the others understood that the indians were so unfriendly only because they regarded Nsiso and the others as Ojeda and other explorers who had come here to invade. No way, the previous Spanish explorers committed many crimes in the local area, they wantonly robbed the Indians of their supplies, usurped their wives and daughters, and slaughtered the locals, even the old and weak women and children, looted and burned the villages where they had lived for generations, and slaughtered their relatives and friends.
Therefore, these Indians hated outsiders to the bone, so they would surround Ensiso and others with full armed forces, determined that even if they could not avenge the snow hatred, they must protect their homeland from being ravaged by foreign invaders, even if they paid their lives.
However, these Indians were still reasonable, seeing that Although Ensiso and his party were the same skin color as their enemies, they gave up their hostility after learning that the two sides were two different groups of people, they threw their weapons aside, and walked forward empty-handed, frankly shook hands with Nsiso, showed sincerity that made the Spaniards ashamed, the two sides were able to live in peace, and when Ensiso stayed in the port of Cartagena, the Indians also showed sincere friendship and warmly welcomed outsiders. The Spaniards were given many sweet potato breads, salted fish, and local specialties – chewy wine and tequila – without asking for anything in return.
Even from the perspective of modern people, these Indians were a group of friendly and good people, not at all as ferocious and martial as other Spanish explorers at that time said, and the Indians' previous attacks were just legitimate resistance to resist aggression, and the real indiscriminate killing of innocents was actually the Spaniards themselves, the disputes they provoked first.
The Spaniards, or other Europeans, would prove this time and again all over the world over the next, as ensiso did not see him as an equal human being, even though he was warmly received by the local Indians. When he heard the news that there was a large number of gold mines in a place called Senu not far from here, he could not help himself with excitement and planned an invasion.
It is said that Sainu has a large number of gold mines, countless high-quality gold buried in the mountains, and every rainy season, a large amount of gold will be washed to the foot of the mountain by torrential rain and sediment, piled up in the surrounding rivers, and its amount is so large that even the Indians can pull up large pieces of gold from the bottom of the river, some gold is even the size of an egg.
Natural gold, also known as dog head gold
In addition, Sainu is also the unified burial place of all the surrounding Indian tribes, which is somewhat similar to our China's Beiqi Mountain, where the local Indians will be transported to be buried after death, and the Indians also have the custom of thick burial, which will put the most precious gold, silver and pearl jewelry of the deceased in the tomb for burial. After such a generation of accumulation, the mountains of Sainu have accumulated a large number of rare treasures used by Indians for burial, which are said by the locals to be gold mountains and silver mountains, and have countless treasures.
When the news was known to Ensiso and the other Spaniards, they were so excited that they decided to loot Senu's grave.
American gold jewelry
I have to say that the moral concepts of these Spaniards really surprise modern people, and Ensiso and his party were warmly entertained by the local Indians on the front foot, and on the back foot they planned to pick up the graves of their ancestors, and they also had a good word, feeling that they were the party of justice, without the slightest guilt. Because in their eyes, the Indians, the "barbarians" who did not even use coffins for burial, were living infidels who dared to blindly worship gods or idols other than God, which was a blasphemy against their faith, so that looting the graves of these uncivilized people was a "just act" for them.
I think that when you look at the history of the Age of Discovery, you must be like me, and you will feel that the term "barbarian" in the Books of the Europeans is often used on the wrong object.
What did the Spaniards come to America for when they crossed the vast seas and braved the storms? It's not about getting rich.
Therefore, as soon as Ensiso and the others saw the opportunity to make a fortune, they were excited, and they immediately organized their men to start moving along the coast towards Senu, but when they first came ashore at a place close to Sainu, they were stopped by two Indian chiefs, who were the keepers of the tomb who had lived in Senu for generations, forbidding unrelated people to bury their bones close to their ancestors.
Restoration of indian cemeteries
Ensiso, who was blocked, produced a legal document approved by the King of Spain and proved to the Indians that the supreme Pope had given all the land possession here to the holy Catholic monarch on behalf of God, and that he had the right to go wherever he wanted to go and do whatever he wanted.
The two Indian chiefs listened quietly to the Spanish proclamation in accordance with their own national customs, without interrupting, and only after the Spaniards had finished speaking did they say that the Spaniards' assertion that there was the only God and that this God was the supreme lord of heaven and earth seemed to be very reasonable, but dismissed the claim that the pope was the embodiment of God on earth, and that the so-called supreme pope had also given the territory of the Indians to the Spanish monarch, saying that the so-called pope must have been drunk after a drunken drunk. He would give property that was not his to others, and the Spanish monarch must have asked for something that belonged to him when he was drunk and delirious.
The two chiefs also firmly stated that they were the rulers of the land and did not need the intervention of any other authority, for that was the case since their ancestors had settled here, and that the sun and moon of the heavens could bear witness to the fact that if the Spanish monarch dared to come and seize their land, they would cut off their heads and plant them on the flagpole and treat them like enemies. In addition, in order to add credibility to their words, they also pointed out to Ensiso to see a row of spiked piles with human heads erected nearby.
The one who granted the Lands of the Indians to the King of Spain was the historically infamous Pope Alexander VI (stills pictured).
But no matter how intimidating the Indians were, and no matter how frightening the heads on the spikes, Ensiso, who had been stimulated by gold to the point of redness, did not flinch, declaring that if the Indians dared to reject God and catholicism, and refused to submit to their monarchs, then they would resort to force and take all the Indians into slavery.
The Spaniards took indians as slaves
The Indians did not back down in the slightest, and repeatedly stated that if Ensiso moved, he would definitely stick his head on the spike. After listening to the threat of the Indians, Ensiso finally could not bear it, and he loudly ordered his men to give these barbarians some color to see, and then led his men to attack the Indians.
In the end, the Spaniards were much more advanced than the Indians, their steel weapons and firearms defeated the Indians, and the steel armor they wore resisted most of the Indians' attacks, and only two soldiers were wounded by poisoned arrows in the battle, and died of great pain caused by poisonous hair.
The Indians mastered the production of poisoned arrows
But Ensiso and the others eventually failed to reach Senu, because they had fewer men, the locals kept coming to reinforcements, and the poisonous arrows they carried also made the Spaniards a little afraid, coupled with the unfamiliarity of life, but also to find Ohda and other reasons, Ensiso and others eventually failed to go deep inland to find treasures, and they finally returned with only the legends of the Sainu region that were full of treasures and the legends of fishing for gold with nets, and other legends that could not be confirmed, and these news rumors would trigger a series of catastrophic expeditions, of course, this is the last word.
Native American