I Came To Serve You

Dynamic, Rapidly Expanding European Monarchy Seeks A Can-do Visionary To Head Up Its South American Divisions.our Ideal Candidate Will Have At Least Five Years' Experience In New World Colonization And Be Willing To Accept Shift Work. Fluency In Spanish An Asset.some Travel Involved

I Should Not Proceed By Land To The East, As Is Customary, But By A Westerly Route, In Which Direction We Have Hitherto No Certain Evidence That Any One Has Gone.

With Gold A Man Can Do Anything. It Even Sends Souls To Paradise.

Weep For Me, Whoever Has Charity, Truth And Justice! I Did Not Come On This Voyage For Gain, Honor Or Wealth, That Is Certain; For Then The Hope Of All Such Things Was Dead. I Came To Your Highnesses With Honest Purpose And Sincere Zeal; And I Do Not Lie. I Humbly Beseech Your Highnesses That, If It Please God To Remove Me Hence, You Will Help Me To Go To Rome And On Other Pilgrimages.

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.