It had uprooted the great tree before the Governor's house and thrown down a part of the church.
"Had the fleet sailed ?" Yes, it seemed.

The day before the storm.

But these men knew nothing of its fortunes.

He kept the Indians with us until we sailed, so as not to spread news of where we were, then gave them presents and let them go.
But on the day we set to sail we did not sail, for along the coast and into our bay came a small caravel, going with men to our fort in Xaragua.

The captain--Ruy Lopez it was--met us as a wonder, San Domingo having held that the hurricane must have sunk us, the sea swallowed us up.