sermone ditans guttura. Thy light to every sense impart, Accende lumen sensibus, and shed thy love in every heart; infunde amorem cordibus, thine own unfailing might supply infirma nostri corporis, to strengthen our infirmity. virtute firmans perpeti. Hostem repellas longius Drive far away our ghostly foe, pacemque dones protinus; and thine abiding peace bestow; ductore sic te praevio if thou be our preventing Guide, vitemus omne noxium. no evil can our steps betide. Deo Patri sit gloria, Praise we the Father and the Son
Christopher Columbus, Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the Fourth Voyage (1503) [Jamaica, July 7, 1503] Of Española, Paria, and the other lands, I never think without weeping. I believed that their example would have been to the profit of others; on the contrary, they are in an exhausted state; although they are not dead, the infirmity is incurable or very extensive; let him who brought them to this state come now with the remedy if he can or if he knows it; in destruction, everyone is an adept. It was always the custom to give thanks and promotion to him who imperiled his person. It is not just that he who has been so hostile to this undertaking should enjoy its fruits or that his children should. Those who left the Indies, flying from toils and speaking evil of the matter and of me, have returned with official employment
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