"And I say that Your Highnesses ought to determine to make them Christians, for I believe that if they begin, in a short time they will be finished, and will have great revenues and dominion, and all t…"

"I have found no monsters, nor heard of any."

"I recognized that they were people who would be better freed [from error] and converted to our Holy Faith by love than by force."

"I found that part of the island towards the south to be all in tail like a woman’s leg."

"I have seen serpents, but they are not as they are painted."