I Should Not Proceed By Land To

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.

One Does Not Discover New Lands Without Consenting To Lose Sight Of The Shore For A Very Long Time. Variants Include "you Can Never Cross The Ocean Unless You Have The Courage To Lose Sight Of The Shore".

And Your Highnesses, As Catholic Christians And Princes, Devoted To The Holy Christian Faith And The Propagation Thereof - And Enemies Of The Sect Of Mohammet And Of All Idolatries And Heresies, Resolved To Send Me, Christopher Columbus, To The Said

I Have Come To Believe That This Is A Mighty Continent Which Was Hitherto Unknown. I Am Greatly Supported In This View By Reason Of This Great River [ozama], And By This Sea Which Is Fresh.

He Who Has Gold Makes And Accomplishes Whatever He Wishes In The World And Finally Uses It To Send Souls To Paradise.