AP Success - AP US History: Columbus's Voyage to the Americas

I have determined to write you this letter to inform you of everything that has been done and discovered in this voyage of mine. . . . many islands inhabited by numerous people. I took possession of all of them for our most fortunate King by making public proclamation and unfurling his [flag, with] no one making any resistance. The island . . . is exceedingly fertile. It has numerous harbors on all sides . . . Through it flow many very broad and health-giving rivers. . . . All these islands are very beautiful . . . and full of the greatest variety of trees reaching to the stars. . . . The inhabitants . . . are all, as I said before, unprovided with any sort of iron, and they are destitute of arms, which are entirely unknown to them, and for which they are not adapted; not on account of any bodily deformity, for they are well made, but because they are timid and full of terror. . . . But when they see that they are safe, and all fear is banished, they are very guileless and honest, and very [generous with] all they have. No one refuses the asked anything that he possesses; on the contrary they themselves invite us to ask for it. They manifest the greatest affection towards all of us, exchanging valuable things for trifles, content with the very least thing or nothing at all.