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1492

CHAPTER XXVII
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When he came aboard and sat in the great cabin I do not know what he said, except that it was of separation by that storm, and the feeling that two parties discovering would thereby discover the more, and the better serve their Majesties.
The Admiral made no quarrel with him.

He had some gold and some news of coasts that we had not seen.

And he did not seem to think it necessary to seem penitent or anything but just naturally Martin Pinzon.

So on we sailed together, he on the _Pinta_ and the Admiral on the _Nina_.

But that was a rough voyage home over Ocean-Sea! Had we had such weather coming, might have been mutiny and throat-cutting and putting back, Cathay and India being of no aid to dead men! Six times at least we thought we were drowned, and made vows, kneeling all together and the Admiral praying for us, Fray Ignatio not being there.


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