Land, Ho!

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Dear Friend,

Today is October 12th, 1492. WE HAVE FINALLY REACHED LAND!!! We have even met some of the local Indians! They seem like very kind people. In order to win their friendship, since I knew they were a people to be converted and won to our holy faith and by love and friendship rather than by force, I gave some of them red caps and glass beads which they hung around their necks, also many other trifles. These pleased them greatly and they became marvelously friendly to us. I can't wait to get back to Spain to tell the King and Queen of our discovery of a new route to India!