6/26 He listened with great satisfaction. "I would lay my head for that Indian!" Talk with him could not be prolonged, for we were in a scene of the greatest business and commotion. When I sought for Guarin he was gone. I looked at the swarming ships and ship boats, and the coming and coming upon the beach of more and more clothed men, and at the tall green palms and the feathered mountains. This host, it seemed to me, was not so artlessly amazed as had been we of the _Santa Maria_, the _Pinta_ and the _Nina_, when first we came to lands so strange to Europe. |