"But six reached us alive.

We instructed them and baptized them.

A great event--the Grand Cardinal and the King and the Queen attending! Three died during the summer, but blessedly, being the first of all their people in all time to enter heaven.

A great salvation!" He looked at the forest and mountains, the sands, the Guaricos, as at a city he was besieging.
"Ha!" said Father Buil, and with his missionaries moved up the beach.
Luis and I began to talk.

"No need to tell me that Spain gave you welcome!"' "The royalest ever! First we came to Lisbon, driven in by storm, and had it there from King John, and then to Palos which, so to speak, went mad! Then through Spain to Barcelona, where was the court, and all the bells in every town ringing and every door and window crowded, and here is the Faery Prince on a white charger, his Indians behind him and gold and parrots and his sailors! Processions and processions--alcalde and alcayde and don and friar and priest, and let us stop at the church and kneel before high altar, and vow again in seven years to free the Sepulchre! He hath walked and ridden, waked and slept, in a great, high vision! Most men have visions but he can sustain vision." "Aye, he can!" "So at last into Barcelona, where grandees meet us, and so on to the court, and music as though the world had turned music! And the King and Queen and great welcome, and, 'Sit beside us, Don Cristoval Colon!' and 'Tell and tell again', and 'Praise we Most High God!'" "It is something for which to praise! Ends of the earth beginning to meet." "Aye! So we write that very night to the Pope to be confirmed that the glory and profit under God are to Castile and Aragon.