Following The Light Of The Sun, We

Thanks Be To God, The Air Is Soft As In April In Seville, And It Is A Pleasure To Be In It, So Fragrant It Is.

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

The Crew Of The Caravel "nina" Also Saw Signs Of Land, And A Small Branch Covered With Berries. Everyone Breathed Afresh And Rejoiced At These Signs.

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.

For This Purpose I Determined To Keep An Account Of The Voyage, And To Write Down Punctually Every Thing We Performed Or Saw From Day To Day, As Will Hereafter Appear.