"The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home."

"The people here are simple in war-like matters... I could take them all with 50 men and subjugate them to my will."

"I have seen so many strange things that I do not know what to say."

"I found the people of this island and all the other islands to be very naked, as I have said, men and women, just as their mothers bore them, but they know not what it is to be shameful, nor to cover …"

"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 t…"