The Spaniards were prohibited from plowing the area as they marched on to collect the gold they had not produced. Due to their diets being far below the standard of subsistence.
they forced men and women to perform the hardest labor at the expense of frequent scavenging. It's true, as I've already said, that someone once told us in my presence that he had forced his Indians to form thousands of cassava mounds by sending them out into the hills for a bellyful of fruit every third day. This is true despite the fact that in our country hoeing vineyards requires much more labor than simply digging enough dirt to create a pile three to four feet high.while they marched on to collect the gold they had done nothing to generate, the Spaniards were prevented from farming the land.
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