An Account of the Antiquities of the IndiansAccompanying Columbus on his second voyage to the New World in 1494 was a young Spanish friar named Ramn Pan. The friars assignment was to live among the Indians whom Columbus had discovered on the island of Hispaniola (today the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic), to learn their language, and to write a record of their lives and beliefs. While the culture of these indigenous peoplewho came to be known as the Tanois now extinct, the