And Your Highnesses, As Catholic Christians And

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 Possible Discoveries, And Return To Your Highnesses, If It Please Our Lord, In April.

With Gold A Man Can Do Anything. It Even Sends Souls To Paradise.

Sailed This Day Nineteen Leagues, And Determined To Count Less Than The True Number, That The Crew Might Not Be Dismayed If The Voyage Should Prove Long.

I Should Not Proceed By Land To The East, As Is Customary, But By A Westerly Route, In Which Direction We Have Hitherto No Certain Evidence That Any One Has Gone.

Here The People Could Stand It No Longer And Complained Of The Long Voyage; But The Admiral Cheered Them As Best He Could, Holding Out Good Hope Of The Advantages They Would Have. He Added That It Was Useless To Complain, He Had Come [to Go] To The Indies, And So Had To Continue It Until He Found Them, With The Help Of Our Lord.