have found the sweetest consolation in casting away all my anxiety, so as to contemplate His marvelous presence. I have already said that for the execution of the enterprise of the Indies, neither reason, nor mathematics, nor world maps were profitable to me; rather the prophecy of Isaiah was completely fulfilled. And this is what I wish to report here for the consideration of your Highnesses, and because you will be gladdened by what I will tell you concerning Jerusalem by the same authoritative