I arrived at the Indies with the fleet which the Sovereigns, our Lord and Lady, sent me. I had not been there twenty days when I discovered by my own experience that the whole of that land is an island.
Sailed to the Americas
Letter to Luis de Santángel, February 15, 1493
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