Abductees were routinely both sold in either the Caribbean or Europe, or trained as translators for future journeys to the Americas. An accepted Spanish policy of the time, for new entradas, included an initial scouting journey steal a couple young men, train them as translators, and return a few years later to conquest the area/establish missions. This method was used with a very strong result in Peru, when Pizarro captured two young boys from the coast in 1528[2]. One of the young men, Martinillo, was trained as a translator, and used during the showdown in Cajamarca in 1532 that resulted in the capture of Atahuallpa (a particularly famous clash.) In another example, Don Luis, a young man abducted by some Spanish missionaries in the 1560s
