It Is Easy To Discover

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.

He Who Has Gold Makes And Accomplishes Whatever He Wishes In The World And Finally Uses It To Send Souls To Paradise.

And They Know Neither Sect Nor Idolatry, With The Exception That All Believe That The Source Of All Power And Goodness Is In The Sky, And They Believe Very Firmly That I, With These Ships And People, Came From The Sky, And In This Belief They Everywhere Received Me, After They Had Overcome Their Fear.

It Was The Lord Who Put Into My Mind That Fact That It Would Be Possible To Sail From Here To The Indies. All Who Heard Of My Project Rejected It With Laughter, Ridiculing Me. There Is No Question That The Inspiration Was From The Holy Spirit, Because He Comforted Me With Rays Of Marvelous Inspiration From The Holy Scriptures.

The Crew Of The Caravel "nina" Also Saw Signs Of Land, And A Small Branch Covered With Berries. Everyone Breathed Afresh And Rejoiced At These Signs.