A Hundred Castellanoes Are As Easily Obtained

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.

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 Forward To But Death. Each Was Certain The Others Had Been Destroyed. What Man Ever Born, Not Excepting Job, Who Would Not Have Died Of Despair, When In Such Weather Seeking Safety For My Son, My Brother, Shipmates, And Myself, We Were Forbidden [access To] The Land And The Harbors Which I, By God's Will And Sweating Blood, Had Won For Spain?

Gold Is A Treasure, And He Who Possesses It Does All He Wishes To In This World, And Succeeds In Helping Souls Into Paradise.

An Old Man Came On Board My Boat; The Others, Both Men And Women Cried With Loud Voices: "come And See The Men Who Have Come From The Sky. Bring Them Victuals And Drink."

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.