"Read if you like," he said.

"The ships set sail day after to-morrow." I took and read in part his letter to a learned man with whom, once or twice, Jayme de Marchena had talked.

It was a long letter in which the Admiral, thinker to thinker, set forth his second voyage and now his city building, and at last certain things for the mind not only of Spain but of France and Italy and England and Germany.

"All lands and all men whom so far we have come to," wrote the Admiral, "are heathen and idolaters.

In the providence of God all such are given unto Christendom.
Christendom must take possession through the acts of Christian princes, under the sanction of Holy Church, allowed by the Pope who is Christ our King's Viceroy.