"Senors, this is senor Juan Lepe, that good physician whom we left.

Now tell--tell all--before we go among this folk!" By water edge I told, thirty men of Spain around me.

A woeful story, I made it short.

These men listened, and when it was done fell a silence.
Christopherus Columbus broke it.

"The wave sucks under and throws out again, but we sail the sea, have sailed it and will sail it!--Now were these Indians false or fair ?" I could tell how fair they had been--could praise Guarico and Guacanagari and Guarin.