“Whatever He promises He fulfills with interest; that is His way. Thus I have told thee what thy Creator hath done for thee and what He doth for all men. He hath now revealed a portion of the rewards for so many toils and dangers thou hast borne in the service of others.”56 In his Lettera Rarissima to the Sovereigns, written from Jamaica, July 7, 1503, Christopher Columbus recounted: The tempest was terrible and separated me from my vessels that night, putting everyone of them in desperate straits,