Fray Ramon PanÉ, a self-described “poor friar of the Order of Saint Jerome,” arrived in Hispaniola with Christopher Columbus in 1494 where he spent the next two years living with and recording the lives of its indigenous inhabitants.JosÉ Juan Arrom is Professor Emeritus of Latin American Literature at Yale University and the author of numerous books, including ImaginaciÓn del Nuevo Mundo.

“[This book] is important for the way in which it anticipates some of the main issues concerning the production of Latin American literature.”-Roberto GonzÁlez EchevarrÍa, author of Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative “[This is a] highly accessible English translation. . . [of] the earliest work dealing exclusively with the indigenous inhabitants of the New World.”-Patricia Seed, Rice University

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction to the English Edition xiIntroductory Study xviiAn Account of the Antiquities of the Indians IAppendix A. Christopher Columbus 41Appendix B. Pietro Martire d'Anghiera 46Appendix C. Fray BartolomÉ de Las Casas 54Bibliographic Note 68Index of Taino Words and Names 71

Fray Ramon PanÉ, a self-described “poor friar of the Order of Saint Jerome,” arrived in Hispaniola with Christopher Columbus in 1494 where he spent the next two years living with and recording the lives of its indigenous inhabitants.JosÉ Juan Arrom is Professor Emeritus of Latin American Literature at Yale University and the author of numerous books, including ImaginaciÓn del Nuevo Mundo.

“[This book] is important for the way in which it anticipates some of the main issues concerning the production of Latin American literature.”-Roberto GonzÁlez EchevarrÍa, author of Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative “[This is a] highly accessible English translation. . . [of] the earliest work dealing exclusively with the indigenous inhabitants of the New World.”-Patricia Seed, Rice University

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction to the English Edition xiIntroductory Study xviiAn Account of the Antiquities of the Indians IAppendix A. Christopher Columbus 41Appendix B. Pietro Martire d'Anghiera 46Appendix C. Fray BartolomÉ de Las Casas 54Bibliographic Note 68Index of Taino Words and Names 71

Fray Ramon PanÉ, a self-described “poor friar of the Order of Saint Jerome,” arrived in Hispaniola with Christopher Columbus in 1494 where he spent the next two years living with and recording the lives of its indigenous inhabitants.JosÉ Juan Arrom is Professor Emeritus of Latin American Literature at Yale University and the author of numerous books, including ImaginaciÓn del Nuevo Mundo.

“[This book] is important for the way in which it anticipates some of the main issues concerning the production of Latin American literature.”-Roberto GonzÁlez EchevarrÍa, author of Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative “[This is a] highly accessible English translation. . . [of] the earliest work dealing exclusively with the indigenous inhabitants of the New World.”-Patricia Seed, Rice University

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction to the English Edition xiIntroductory Study xviiAn Account of the Antiquities of the Indians IAppendix A. Christopher Columbus 41Appendix B. Pietro Martire d'Anghiera 46Appendix C. Fray BartolomÉ de Las Casas 54Bibliographic Note 68Index of Taino Words and Names 71