These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.

Thus the eternal God, our Lord, gives victory to those who follow His way over apparent impossibilities.

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

It was the Lord who put into my mind that fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures.

Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.

And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts.