I Ordered Each Man To

Your Highnesses Have An Other World Here, By Which Our Holy Faith Can Be So Greatly Advanced And From Which Such Great Wealth Can Be Drawn.

It Is True That After They Have Been Reassured And Have Lost This Fear, They Are So Artless And So Free With All They Possess, That No One Would Believe It Without Having Seen It. Of Anything They Have, If You Ask Them For It, They Never Say No; Rather They Invite The Person To Share It, And Show As Much Love As If They Were Giving Their Hearts.

I Ordered Each Man To Be Presented With Something, As Strings Of Ten Or A Dozen Glass Beads Apiece, And Thongs Of Leather, All Which They Estimated Highly; Those Which Came On Board I Directed Should Be Fed With Molasses.

I Saw A Boy Of The Crew Purchasing Javelins Of Them With Bits Of Platters And Broken Glass.

Thus The Eternal God, Our Lord, Gives Victory To Those Who Follow His Way Over Apparent Impossibilities.