But his affairs of office, Fray Juan Perez and I gathered, sitting solicitous at La Rabida, were not in so fair a posture.

He and his household did not lack.

Monies were paid him, though not in full his tithe of all gains from his finding.

What never shook was his title of The Admiral.

But they seemed, the Sovereigns, or at least King Ferdinand, to look through "Viceroy" as though it were a shade.