I prayed to the most merciful Lord about my heart's great desire, and He gave me the spirit and the intelligence for the task: seafaring, astronomy, geometry, arithmetic, skill in drafting spherical maps and placing correctly the cities, rivers, mountains and ports. I also studied cosmology, history, chronology and philosophy.
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"I found the people of this island and all the other islands to be very naked, as I have said, men and women, just as their mothers bore them, but they know not what it is to be shameful, nor to cover …"
"I swear to your Highnesses that there is not a better land under the sun."
"I have seen serpents, but they are not as they are painted."
"I saw no great trees, but many groves of palms, all very green and fair; and the whole island was so green that it was a joy to behold. And I saw no mountains, but some hills and rocks, and all the re…"
"These people are very unskilled in arms... with fifty men they could all be subjugated and compelled to do anything one wishes."
Self-reflection on his diverse studies and belief in divine assistance, from his writings.
Date: Late 15th - early 16th century (approximate)
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