He sat under a huge tree and around gathered the Pinzons, Fray Ignatio, Diego de Arana, Roderigo Sanchez and others.

We related; they questioned, we answered; there was discussion; the Admiral summed up.
But later I spoke to him alone.

We were now on ship, making ready for sailing.

We would go eastward, around this point of Asia, since from what all said it must be point, and see what was upon the other side.
"They all gesture south! They say 'Babeque--Babeque! Bohio!'" I asked him, "Why is it that these Indians here seem glad for us to go ?" He sighed impatiently, drawing one hand through the other, with him a recurring gesture.

"It is the women! Certain of our men--" I saw him look at Gutierrez who passed.
"Tomaso Passamonte, too," I said.
"Yes.