Need ! passage: the spaniards first assaulted the innocent sheep . . like most cruel tygers, wolves and lions hunger-starv'd, studying nothing, for the space of forty years, after their first landing, but the massacre of these wretches . . of three millions of persons, which lived in hispaniola itself, there is at present but the . . remnant of scarce three hundred. how did bartolomé de las casas draw distinctions between the spanish people and the american indians?