"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…"

"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 natives are so naive and free with their possessions that no one who has not witnessed them would believe it."

"I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route."

"I believe that in these lands there are many things which are not known, and which are not seen, and which are not heard."