Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, in his De orbe…

Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, in his De orbe novo decades, wrote how Balboa had fed forty local homosexual men to his dogs.

Balboa, upset with "a brother of the king and other young men, obliging men, [who] dressed effeminately with women's clothing [... of those which the brother of the king] went too far with unnatural" temerity, threw forty of them as food to the dogs.

D'Anghiera continues his story saying that the indigenous people's "natural hate for unnatural sin" drove them so that, "spontaneously and violently, they searched for all the rest that they would know who were infected".

After all, D'Anghiera mentions that "only the nobles and the gentlemen practiced that kind of desire. [...The] indigenous people knew that sodomy gravely offended God. [... And that these acts provoked] the tempests that with thunder and lightning so frequently afflicted them, or the floods that drowned their fruits that had caused hunger and sickness."