Columbus gives the king gifts and shows him the royal banners

… After eating, a squire brought a belt, which is just like those of Castile in its make, except that it is of other work, which he took and gave me, and two pieces of worked gold which were very thin, for I believe that here they get little of it, although I hold that they are very near where it is born, and there is much. I saw that a hanging that I had over my bed pleased him; I gave it to him, and some very good amber beads that I wore at my neck, and some red shoes, and a flask of orange flower water, at which he was so pleased that it was a wonder, and he and his tutor and counselors are much grieved because they did not understand me nor I them. Still I knew that he told me that if anything here should serve me, the whole island was at my command. I sent for some beads of mine, where as a token I have a gold excelente on which Your Highnesses are sculpted, and showed it to him, and told him again, as yesterday, that Your Highnesses commanded and ruled over all the best of the world, and that there were no Princes so great; …