Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

Houses are built to live in and not to look on.

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.