Some put in that he was done for, others clamored that he was yet mounting.
But he wrote to the Adelantado and also to Juan Lepe that he sat between good and bad at court.

The Queen was ever the great head of the good.
We knew from him that Pedro Margarite and Father Buil and Juan Aguado altered nothing there.

But elsewhere now there were warm winds, and now biting cold.

And warm and cold, he could not get the winds that should fill his sails.

He begged for ships--eight he named--that he might now find for the sovereigns main Asia--not touch here and there upon Cuba shore, but find the Deep All.