By Prevailing Over All Obstacles

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.

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."

Tomorrow Morning Before We Depart, I Intend To Land And See What Can Be Found In The Neighborhood.

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?

Here The People Could Stand It No Longer And Complained Of The Long Voyage; But The Admiral Cheered Them As Best He Could, Holding Out Good Hope Of The Advantages They Would Have. He Added That It Was Useless To Complain, He Had Come [to Go] To The Indies, And So Had To Continue It Until He Found Them, With The Help Of Our Lord.