What is the Sovereigns' command?
'Touch not on your outward way at Hispaniola!' What is in their mind here?
'Hale and faring well, you have no need.'-- But if we are not hale and faring well by a fourth of our enterprise?
They never meant it to a drowning man, or one whose water cask was empty! Being Christian, no! We will put into San Domingo and ask of Don Nicholas de Ovando a ship in place of the _Margarita_." Whereat all cheered.

We were gathered under palms, upon a fair point of land in San Juan le Bautista.

Next day we weighed anchor, and in picture San Domingo rose before us.
He felt no doubt of decent welcome, of getting his ship.

Fifteen sail had gone out with Ovando.

Turn the cases around, and he would have given Ovando welcome, he would give him a good ship.