By Prevailing Over All Obstacles And Distractions,

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.

Thus The Eternal God, Our Lord, Gives Victory To Those Who Follow His Way Over Apparent Impossibilities.

The Two Christians Met On The Way Many People Who Were Going To Their Towns, Women And Men, With A Firebrand In The Hand, Herbs To Drink The Smoke Thereof, As They Are Accustomed.

Stood Off And On During The Night, Determining Not To Come To Anchor Till Morning, Fearing To Meet With Shoals; Continued Our Course In The Morning; And As The Island Was Found To Be Six Or Seven Leagues Distant, And The Tide Was Against Us, It Was Noon When We Arrived There.

Of This Voyage, I Observe, That It Has Miraculously Been Shown, As May Be Understood By This Writing, By The Many Signal Miracles That He Has Shown On The Voyage, And For Me, Who For So Great A Time Was In The Court Of Your Highnesses With The Opposition And Against The Opinion Of So Many High Personages Of Your Household, Who Were All Against Me, Alleging This Undertaking To Be Folly, Which I Hope In Our Lord Will Be To The Greater Glory Of Christianity, Which To Some Slight Extent Already Has Happened.