There were good men upon this voyage, and very bold men.
The youth Fernando Colon sailed with his father.

He was now fourteen, Don Fernando, slim, intelligent, obedient and loving always to the Admiral.
Days of bright weather, days and days of that marvelous favorable wind that blows over Ocean-Sea.

The twenty-fifth of May the Canaries sank behind us.

On and on, all the sails steady.
We were not first for Hispaniola.

All must be strange, this voyage! Jamaica, not San Domingo, was our star.