"Journal of the First Voyage to America"

"I saw a snake,which we killed, and I have kept the skin for highnesses; upon being discovered he took to the water, whiter we followed him, as it was not deep, and dispatched him with our lances; he was seven spans in length;  I think there are many more such bout here."

One quotation where you feel he is stretching the truth?... The melody of the birds was so exquisite that one was never willing to part from the spot, and the flocks of parrots obscured the heavens