On his way to Hispaniola, Columbus discovered the beautiful Island of Puerto Rico. Voyagers were eager to get off the ships, wanting to go look and find good, or at the least, start colonizing. He found the island populated by as many as 60,000 Arawak or Taino indians, which were friendly compared to the Carib indians in some of the more southerly islands which were warlike and to some degree cannibalistic. The conquest of the island didn't take long, and the peaceful Tainos were put to the task as slaves to mine the gold that was found on the island.
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