"What do you want, gentlemen? What do you wish from me? Do you want to kill me?"

"I have seen more wonders than any man living."

"This city is the greatest and the finest ever seen in this country or anywhere in the Indies... We can assure your Majesty that it is so beautiful and has such fine buildings that it would be remarkab…"

"No man should think of going forward in the expedition, who could not do so with his whole heart, or who had the least misgiving as to its success."

"I will build a city here, and it will be greater than any other."