He did not look upon it as a buyer of strife and envy, idleness and soft luxury; but as a buyer of crusades, ships and ships, discoveries and discoveries, and Christ to enter heathendom.
Gold! Discs of great size, half-moons, crescent moons, pierced for a cotton string.

Small golden beasts and birds, poorly carved but golden.
They traded freely; we gathered gold.

And there was more and more, they said, at Veragua, wherever that might be, and south and east it seemed to be.
Veragua! We would go there.

Again we hoisted sail and in our ships, now all unseaworthy, crept again in a bad wind along the coast of gold,--Costa Rico.

At last we saw many smokes from the land.