I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

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.

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

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

Gold is the most precious of all commodities; gold constitutes treasure, and he who possesses it has all he needs in the world, as also the means of rescuing souls from purgatory, and restoring them to the enjoyment of paradise.

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.