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.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

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.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

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

I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south.