"The people are all naked, men and women, as their mothers bore them."

"These people are very unskilled in arms... with fifty men they could all be subjugated and compelled to do anything one wishes."

"I believe that this is the Earthly Paradise."

"I have found no monsters, nor heard of any."

"I arrived at the Indies with the fleet which the Sovereigns, our Lord and Lady, sent me. I had not been there twenty days when I discovered by my own experience that the whole of that land is an islan…"