They are great, they are small, they are of the extremest beauty! San Martin, Dominica, Guadaloupe, San Juan--the Boriquen whence had come, long ago, that Catalina whom Guacanagari aided--and untouched at, or under the horizon, many another that the Admiral had named; _Santa Maria_ la Antigua, Santa Cruz, Santa Ursula, Montserrat, Eleven Thousand Virgins, Marigalante and all beside.
What a world! Plato his Atlantis.

How truly old we are God only knows! The _Margarita_ sailed most badly.

At San Juan that is the neighbor great island to Hispaniola, council, two councils, one following the other.

Then said the Admiral, "We are to find the Strait that shall at last carry us to clothed Asia of all the echoes, and to find we have but four small ships and one of them evidently doomed.

And in that one sails my brother.