The Admiral Says That He Never Beheld

I Should Not Proceed By Land To The East, As Is Customary, But By A Westerly Route, In Which Direction We Have Hitherto No Certain Evidence That Any One Has Gone.

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.

I'm Telling You That India Is That Way, Now Set My Course.

And I Say That Your Highnesses Ought Not To Consent That Any Foreigner Does Business Or Sets Foot Here, Except Christian Catholics, Since This Was The End And The Beginning Of The Enterprise, That It Should Be For The Enhancement And Glory Of The Christian Religion, Nor Should Anyone Who Is Not A Good Christian Come To These Parts.

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.