"I found very many islands filled with people innumerable, and of them all I have taken possession."

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

"I should believe that they would easily be made Christians, because they have no religion."

"I could conquer the whole of them with fifty men, and govern them as I pleased."

"I found the people of this island and all the other islands to be very naked, as I have said, men and women, just as their mothers bore them, but they know not what it is to be shameful, nor to cover …"