Your Highnesses Have An Other World Here,

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.

And Your Highnesses, As Catholic Christians And Princes, Devoted To The Holy Christian Faith And The Propagation Thereof - And Enemies Of The Sect Of Mohammet And Of All Idolatries And Heresies, Resolved To Send Me, Christopher Columbus, To The Said

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.

I Found That Part Of It Towards San Salvador Extending From North To South Five Leagues, And The Other Side Which We Coasted Along, Ran From East To West More Than Ten Leagues.

I Came To Serve You At The Age Of 28 And Now I Have Not A Hair On Me That Is Not White, And My Body Is Infirm And Exhausted. All That Was Left To Me And My Brothers Has Been Taken Away And Sold, Even To The Cloak That I Wore, Without Hearing Or Trial, To My Great Dishonor.