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- Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for…
- And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky,…
- It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess,…
- 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…
- The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers…
- I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my…
- "Of this voyage, I observe," says the Admiral, "that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by the many signal…
- It was the Lord who put into my mind that fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who…
- 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…
- 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…
- And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect of…
- By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
- These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
- Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
- Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.
- 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…
- I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which…
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