Above us rang the cry, "All off!" From Christopherus Columbus to Pedro Acevedo all left the Santa Maria and were received by the Nina.

Crowded, crowded was the Nina! Down voyaged the moon, up came with freshness the rose-chapleted dawn.

A wreck lay the Santa Maria, painted against the east, about her a low thunder of breakers.

Where was the _Pinta_ no man knew! Perhaps halfway back to Spain or perhaps wrecked and drowned like the flagship.

The Nina, a small, small ship and none too seaworthy, carried all of Europe and Discovery..