Fray Ignatio stands on the church steps and cries that there are idolaters there, and he will go to tell them about our Lord Jesus Christ! Then the alcalde gets up and says that the Sovereigns must be obeyed, and that the _Santa Maria_ and the Pinta shall be made ready.

Then the pilots Sancho Ruiz and Pedro Nino and Bartolomeo Roldan push out together and say they'll go, and others follow, seeing they'll have to anyhow! So it went that day and the next and the next, until now they've pressed all they need.

So I say, we are here, brother, flopping in the net!" "When does he sail ?" "Day after to-morrow, 'tis said.

But we who don't live in Palos have our orders to be there to-night.

Aren't you going too, mate ?" I answered that I hadn't thought of it, and immediately, out of the whole, there rose and faced me, "You have thought of it all the time!" Sancho spoke.