No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

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

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.