And I say that Your Highnesses ought to determine to make them Christians, for I believe that if they begin, in a short time they will be finished, and will have great revenues and dominion, and all these peoples will be converted to our holy faith; and for this I believe that Your Highnesses should send here learned persons, who may teach them the faith, and make them Christians.
— Christopher Columbus Early Modern

Sailed to the Americas

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Journal of the First Voyage, October 13, 1492

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1492

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32688/32688-h/32688-h.htm

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