"The natives are so naive and free with their possessions that no one who has not witnessed them would believe it."

"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 islan…"

"I have come to serve at 28 years with this art of navigation."

"I saw no great trees, but many groves of palms, all very green and fair; and the whole island was so green that it was a joy to behold. And I saw no mountains, but some hills and rocks, and all the re…"

"The natives are an inoffensive people, but so far from being intelligent that they are incapable of learning."