I Ordered Each Man To Be Presented

Of This Voyage, I Observe, That It Has Miraculously Been Shown, As May Be Understood By This Writing, By The Many Signal Miracles That He Has Shown On The Voyage, And For Me, Who For So Great A Time Was In The Court Of Your Highnesses With The Opposition And Against The Opinion Of So Many High Personages Of Your Household, Who Were All Against Me, Alleging This Undertaking To Be Folly, Which I Hope In Our Lord Will Be To The Greater Glory Of Christianity, Which To Some Slight Extent Already Has Happened.

It Is Easy To Discover What Another Has Discovered Before.

I Should Be Judged As A Captain Who Went From Spain To The Indies To Conquer A People Numerous And Warlike, Whose Manners And Religion Are Very Different From Ours, Who Live In Sierras And Mountains, Without Fixed Settlements, And Where By Divine Will I Have Placed Under The Sovereignty Of The King And Queen Our Lords, An Other World, Whereby Spain, Which Was Reckoned Poor, Is Become The Richest Of Countries. Columbus Is Coming From The Indies As A Prisoner To Cadiz.

For This Purpose I Determined To Keep An Account Of The Voyage, And To Write Down Punctually Every Thing We Performed Or Saw From Day To Day, As Will Hereafter Appear.

With Gold A Man Can Do Anything. It Even Sends Souls To Paradise.