_Te Deum Laudamus!_ At last the massed brightness out in the plain quivered and parted.

The pageantry broke, wide curving and returning with some freedom but with order too, into Santa Fe.

I saw the Queen and the King with their children, and the Grand Cardinal, and prelates and prelates, and the Marquis of Cadiz, and many a grandee and famous knight.

Don Enrique de Cerda and his troop came by.
Diego Lopez and I returned to the town.

I saw again the man who would find India by a way unpassed, as far as one knew, since the world began! He was entering a house with a friar beside him.