I doubt if on earth can be found a people without religion.
Men and women they watched and listened, still, attentive, knowing that it had somehow to do with heaven.

After sermon and after we had prayed and sung, we fashioned and set up a great cross upon cliff brow.

Again the Indians watched and seemed to have some notion of what we did.
The remainder of the day we rested, and on Monday early Roderigo Jerez, Luis Torres and Juan Lepe with Diego Colon and two Cuba men made departure, We had a pack of presents and a letter from the Admiral.

For we might meet some administrator or commandant or other, from Quinsai or Zaiton or we knew not where.

This was the first of many--ah, so many--expeditions, separations from main body and return, or not return, as the case might be!.