 He oversaw the construction of a monastery in Puerto Plata on the north coast of Hispaniola, subsequently serving as prior of the convent.In 1527 he began working on his "History of the Indies", in which he reported much of what he had witnessed first hand in the conquest and colonization of New Spain.In 1531, he wrote a letter to Garcia Manrique, Count of Osorno, protesting again the mistreatment of the Indians and advocating a return to his original reform plan of 1516.