Use the following passage from the Spanish friar Bartolome de las Casas in 1542. It describes events in the Bahama Islands after the Spanish conquest: "The native population, which once numbered some five hundred thousand, was wiped out by forcible expatriation to the island of Hispaniola, a policy adopted by the Spaniards in an endeavour to make up losses among the indigenous population of that island. " Bartolome de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, 1542 What inference does the passage support?