UP and down went the great Roldan scission.

Up and down went Indian revolt, repression, fresh revolt, fresh repression.

On flowed time.
Ships came in, one bearing Don Diego; ships went out.

Time passed.
Alonso de Ojeda, who by now was no more than half his friend, returned to Spain and there proposed to the Sovereigns a voyage of his own to that Southern Continent that never had the Admiral chance to return to! The Sovereigns now were giving such consent to this one and to that one, breaking their pact with Christopherus Columbus.

In our world it was now impossible that that pact should be letter-kept, but the Genoese did not see it so.