"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…"

"I am so grieved at their departure that I shall never cease to regret it."

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

"I have always read that the world was spherical."

"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."