"The tide went out, but it came back bearing the sound of where we were going!" "Then what happened in Palos ?" "What happened was that they couldn't get the ships and they couldn't get the men! Palos wouldn't listen.

It was too wild, what they wanted to do! It wouldn't listen to the Prior and it wouldn't listen to Doctor Garcia Fernandez, and it wouldn't even listen to Captain Martin Alonso Pinzon.

And when that happens--! So for a long time there was a kind of angry calm.

And then, lo you! we find that they have written to the Queen and the King.

There come letters to Palos, and they are harsh ones!" "I never heard harsher from any King and Queen!" said Fernando.
"There weren't only the letters, but they'd sent also a great man, Senor Juan de Penelosa, to see that they got obedience.