These men did not know what had happened in March or in April, but they knew something of May.

In May he came to Palos and settled down with Fray Juan Perez in La Rabida, and to see him went Captain Martin Pinzon who knew him already, and the physician Garcia Fernandez and others, and they all talked together for a day and a night.

After that the alcalde of Palos and others in authority had letters and warrants from the Queen and the King, and they overbore everything, calling him Don and _El Almirante_ and saying that he must be furnished forth.

Then came a day when everybody was gathered in the square before the church of Saint George, and the alcalde that had a great voice read the letters.
"I was there!" said Fernando.

"I brought in fish that morning." "I, too!" quoth Sancho.