"Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold."

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

"The earth is not round as a ball, but pear-shaped."

"As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force."

"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…"