"I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day."

"The Admiral says that he never saw a more beautiful thing, with trees all along the river, beautiful and green and different from ours."

"The people here have no religion."

"I should believe that they would easily be made Christians, because they have no religion."

"They ought to make good and skilled servants, for they repeat very quickly whatever we say to them."