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.

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

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

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

It is hoped that by God's assistance, some of the continents in the Ocean will be discovered ... for the Glory of God.

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