We had Indians aboard, but the sea and the whipping and groaning of our masts and rigging and sails and the pitching of the ship terrified them, and terror made them dull.

They sat with knees drawn up and head buried in arms and shivered, and knew not Babeque from anything else.
Christopherus Columbus could be very obstinate.

Wishing strongly to gain that island, through all this day he had us strive toward it.

But the wind was directly ahead and strong as ten giants.

The master and others made representations, and at last he nodded his gray head and ordered the _Santa Maria_ put about and the Pinta and the Nina signaled.