And Your Highnesses, As Catholic

An Old Man Came On Board My Boat; The Others, Both Men And Women Cried With Loud Voices: "come And See The Men Who Have Come From The Sky. Bring Them Victuals And Drink."

The Admiral Says That He Never Beheld So Fair A Thing: Trees All Along The River, Beautiful And Green, And Different From Ours, With Flowers And Fruits Each According To Their Kind, Many Birds And Little Birds Which Sing Very Sweetly.

The Tempest Was Terrible And Separated Me From My [other] Vessels That Night, Putting Every One Of Them In Desperate Straits, With Nothing To Look Forward To But Death. Each Was Certain The Others Had Been Destroyed. What Man Ever Born, Not Excepting Job, Who Would Not Have Died Of Despair, When In Such Weather Seeking Safety For My Son, My Brother, Shipmates, And Myself, We Were Forbidden [access To] The Land And The Harbors Which I, By God's Will And Sweating Blood, Had Won For Spain?

One Does Not Discover New Lands Without Consenting To Lose Sight Of The Shore For A Very Long Time. Variants Include "you Can Never Cross The Ocean Unless You Have The Courage To Lose Sight Of The Shore".

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