Following The Light Of The

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

Nothing That Results In Human Progress Is Achieved With Unanimous Consent. Those That Are Enlightened Before The Others Are Condemned To Pursue That Light In Spite Of The Others.

Gold Is A Treasure, And He Who Possesses It Does All He Wishes To In This World, And Succeeds In Helping Souls Into Paradise.

For This Purpose I Determined To Keep An Account Of The Voyage, And To Write Down Punctually Every Thing We Performed Or Saw From Day To Day, As Will Hereafter Appear.

Of This Voyage, I Observe, That It Has Miraculously Been Shown, As May Be Understood By This Writing, By The Many Signal Miracles That He Has Shown On The Voyage, And For Me, Who For So Great A Time Was In The Court Of Your Highnesses With The Opposition And Against The Opinion Of So Many High Personages Of Your Household, Who Were All Against Me, Alleging This Undertaking To Be Folly, Which I Hope In Our Lord Will Be To The Greater Glory Of Christianity, Which To Some Slight Extent Already Has Happened.