"I have always read that the world was spherical."

"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."

"Here are great mines of gold and other metals."

"The people here are very timid, and are all naked, men and women, as their mothers bore them; and they have no weapons, nor know them, for I showed them swords, and they took them by the edge and cut …"

"I found that part of the island towards the south to be all in tail like a woman’s leg."