"The natives are an inoffensive people, but so far from being intelligent that they are incapable of learning."

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

"I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies."

"Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier."

"I found that part of the island towards the south to be all in tail like a woman’s leg."