[1492 by Mary Johnston]@TWC D-Link book1492 CHAPTER XXXVIII 21/22
Audience was over. For the rest he was courteous--asked of the voyage--and of the Admiral's notion of the Strait.
"A great man!" he said.
"A Thinker, a Seer." He sent him messages of courtesy three-piled.
And so we parted. This was the Governor of whom one said long afterwards, "He was a good governor for white men, but not for Indians." As life and destiny would have it, in the place without the Governor's house I met him who was to say it.
Terreros and I with the same escort were for the water side, the _Consolacion's_ long boat.
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