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Other Quotes by Christopher Columbus
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look…
- And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics since this was…
- 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…
- 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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