I'm telling you that India is that way, now set my course.

An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: "Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink."

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.

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

With gold a man can do anything. It even sends souls to paradise.

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

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.