"You are better," I said, "and younger." "It is a strange thing," he answered, "but so it had been from my boyhood.

Is the danger close and drear, is the ship upon the reef, then some one pours for me wine! Some one, do I say?
I know Whom!" I began to speak of the Adelantado.

"Aye, there he is the same! 'Peril--darkness?
Well, let's meet it!' We are alike, we three brothers, alike and different.

Diego serves God best in a monastery, and I serve best in a ship with a book and a map to be followed and bettered.
Bartholomew serves best where he has been, Adelantado and Alcayde.

He is powerful there, with judgment and action.