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From Quotes by Christopher Columbus
- 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,…
- I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion…
- 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…
- 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…
- The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look…
- 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…
- Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be…
- 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…
- For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day…
- 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…
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