Much More Might Be Said, But As You
Are A Wise And Judicious Person, And I Have Already Told You Of What Is
Most Material, I Am Satisfied That You Will Fully Understand The Whole,
And I Shall Not Therefore Be More Prolix.
What I have written may satisfy
your curiosity, and is as much as the shortness of the time and my
business will admit.
Therefore I remain most ready to satisfy his majesty
to the utmost of my abilities in all commands which he may be pleased to
lay upon me."
Paul the Physician afterwards wrote the following letter to my father. - "I
received your letter with those things you sent me, which I esteem a great
favour, and I greatly commend your noble and ardent desire of sailing
from the east to the west, as marked out in the chart which I sent you;
but which would be much better demonstrated in the form of a globe. I am
rejoiced that it is well understood, that the voyage laid down is not
only possible but true, certain, honourable, advantageous, and most
glorious among Christians. You can only become perfect in the knowledge of
it by practice and experience, which I have had in some measure,
especially by the solid and true information of many worthy and wise men
who came from those parts to the court of Rome, and from merchants who
are persons of good reputation and have long traded to those regions.
Hence, when the voyage shall be performed, it will be to powerful kingdoms,
and to most noble provinces and cities, rich, flourishing, and abounding
in all those commodities of which we are in need:
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