Following The Light Of The Sun, We

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 Drawn.

3 Is Prime, 5 Is Prime, 7 Is Prime. According To Some Ancient Manuscripts 9 Is Not A Prime Number, But Beyond The Distant Horizon Of The Oceans, In The New World That I Am Going To Discover, There Are Surely Lots Of Them.

I Ordered Each Man To Be Presented With Something, As Strings Of Ten Or A Dozen Glass Beads Apiece, And Thongs Of Leather, All Which They Estimated Highly; Those Which Came On Board I Directed Should Be Fed With Molasses.

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 Then The Hope Of All Such Things Was Dead. I Came To Your Highnesses With Honest Purpose And Sincere Zeal; And I Do Not Lie. I Humbly Beseech Your Highnesses That, If It Please God To Remove Me Hence, You Will Help Me To Go To Rome And On Other Pilgrimages.

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.