Thus The Eternal God, Our Lord, Gives

It Is True That After They Have Been Reassured And Have Lost This Fear, They Are So Artless And So Free With All They Possess, That No One Would Believe It Without Having Seen It. Of Anything They Have, If You Ask Them For It, They Never Say No; Rather They Invite The Person To Share It, And Show As Much Love As If They Were Giving Their Hearts.

The Tempest Was Terrible And Separated Me From My [other] Vessels That Night, Putting Every One Of Them In Desperate Straits, With Nothing To Look Forward To But Death. Each Was Certain The Others Had Been Destroyed. What Man Ever Born, Not Excepting Job, Who Would Not Have Died Of Despair, When In Such Weather Seeking Safety For My Son, My Brother, Shipmates, And Myself, We Were Forbidden [access To] The Land And The Harbors Which I, By God's Will And Sweating Blood, Had Won For Spain?

Thanks Be To God, The Air Is Soft As In April In Seville, And It Is A Pleasure To Be In It, So Fragrant It Is.

Gold Is A Treasure, And He Who Possesses It Does All He Wishes To In This World, And Succeeds In Helping Souls Into Paradise.

Thus The Eternal God, Our Lord, Gives Victory To Those Who Follow His Way Over Apparent Impossibilities.