It Is Easy To Discover What Another

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.

A Hundred Castellanoes Are As Easily Obtained For A Woman As For A Farm, And It Is Very General And There Are Plenty Of Dealers Who Go About Looking For Girls; Those From Nine To Ten (years Old) Are Now In Demand.

I Have Come To Believe That This Is A Mighty Continent Which Was Hitherto Unknown. I Am Greatly Supported In This View By Reason Of This Great River [ozama], And By This Sea Which Is Fresh.

It Is Easy To Discover What Another Has Discovered Before.

For The Execution Of The Voyage To The Indies, I Did Not Make Use Of Intelligence, Mathematics Or Maps.