"Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such grea…"

"Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is…"

"It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they…"

"I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and…"

"The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate …"

"I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exh…"

"I certify to Your Highnesses that in the world I believe that there are no better people nor better land. They love t…"

"Of this voyage, I observe," says the Admiral, "that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writ…"

"I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this vie…"

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."