"I think it false news about the Portuguese," said the Admiral and gave reasons why.

"Then shall we keep with you, sir ?" "No, since you are sent out by my brother and must give him account.
Have you water to spare?
We will take that from you.

I am bound still south.

I will find out what is there!" Further talk disclosed that he had left Spain with six ships, but at the Canaries had parted his fleet in two, sending three under Alonzo de Caravajal upon the straight course to Hispaniola, and himself with three sailing first to the Green Cape islands, and thence southwest into an unknown sea.
So desolate, wide and blue it looked when the next day we parted,--two ships northward, three southward! But Juan Lepe stayed with the _Esperanza_ and the Admiral.

As long since, between the _Santa Maria_ and the _Pinta_, there had been exchange of physicians, so now again was exchange between the _Santa Cruz_ and the _Esperanza_.
Days of blue sea.