Life Has More Imagination Than We Carry

An Old Man Came On Board My Boat; The Others, Both Men And Women Cried With Loud Voices: "come And See The Men Who Have Come From The Sky. Bring Them Victuals And Drink."

And They Know Neither Sect Nor Idolatry, With The Exception That All Believe That The Source Of All Power And Goodness Is In The Sky, And They Believe Very Firmly That I, With These Ships And People, Came From The Sky, And In This Belief They Everywhere Received Me, After They Had Overcome Their Fear.

I Went To Sea From The Most Tender Age And Have Continued In A Sea Life To This Day. Whoever Gives Himself Up To This Art Wants To Know The Secrets Of Nature Here Below. It Is More Than Forty Years That I Have Been Thus Engaged. Wherever Any One Has Sailed, There I Have Sailed.

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.

Stood Off And On During The Night, Determining Not To Come To Anchor Till Morning, Fearing To Meet With Shoals; Continued Our Course In The Morning; And As The Island Was Found To Be Six Or Seven Leagues Distant, And The Tide Was Against Us, It Was Noon When We Arrived There.