Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten (years old) are now in demand.

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.

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

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.