And going once to Porto Santo with my wife she fell ill and moaned for the land, and we were held as by the sea bottom, and I thought she would die who might be saved if she could have the land.

And I remember going down the African coast with Santanem--" Diego de Arana said, "You have had a full life, senor!" He was cousin, I had been told, to that Dona Beatrix whom the Admiral cherished, mother of his youngest son, Fernando.

The Admiral had affection for him, and Diego de Arana lived and died, a good, loyal man.

"A full outward life," he went on, "and I dare swear, a full inward one!" "That is God's truth!" said the Admiral.

"You may well say that, senor! Inside I have lived with all who have lived, and discovered with all who have discovered!" I remember as a dream this last day upon the _Santa Maria_.