With Gold A Man Can Do Anything.

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

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.

It Was The Lord Who Put Into My Mind That Fact That It Would Be Possible To Sail From Here To The Indies. All Who Heard Of My Project Rejected It With Laughter, Ridiculing Me. There Is No Question That The Inspiration Was From The Holy Spirit, Because He Comforted Me With Rays Of Marvelous Inspiration From The Holy Scriptures.

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.

I Saw A Boy Of The Crew Purchasing Javelins Of Them With Bits Of Platters And Broken Glass.