Certainly there is nowhere where there is not something! He gazed over the truly azure and beauteous sea, and the air blew soft and cool upon our foreheads, and the fragrance which came to us from land seemed new.

"Would you not look for the halcyons?
Trinidad! Holy Island! We approach, I hold, the Holy Mountain of the World.

And hark to me, Juan Lepe, make vow that if it be permitted I will found there an abbey whence shall arise perpetual orison for the souls of our first parents!" We found that night that the ships swung, caught in a current issuing from the strait before us.

In the morning we made sail and prepared to pass through this narrow way between the two lands, seeing open water beyond.

We succeeded by great skill and with Providence over us, for we met as it were an under wall of water ridged atop with strong waves.