"Oh, it didn't seem so bad that day! One and another thought, 'Perhaps I'll go!' Him they call The Admiral is a big figure of a man, and of course we that use the sea get to know how a good captain looks.

We knew that he had sailed and sailed, and had had his own ship, maybe two or three of them! Then too the Pinzons and the Prior of La Rabida answered for him.

A lot of us almost belong to the Pinzons, having signed to fish and voyage for them, and the Prior is a well-liked man.

The alcalde folds up the letter as though he were in church, and they all come down the steps and go away to the alcalde's house which is around the corner.

It wasn't until they were gone that Palos began to ask, 'Where were three ships and maybe a hundred and fifty men _going_ ?'" "We found out next day," said Fernando.