[1492 by Mary Johnston]@TWC D-Link book1492 CHAPTER IX 7/14
I said, "I will find Sebastian Jaurez, and I will go to church, Senors.
A ship is a ship, and a voyage a voyage!" "This, Juan Lepe," said the Admiral in that peculiarly warm and thrilling voice of his, "is such a voyage as you have never been!" I made reply, "So be it! I would have every voyage greater than the last." And as they put their steeds into motion, walked behind them downhill and over sandy ways into Palos.
There I found Sebastian Jaurez who signed me in.
I put into my pocket the coin he gave me and drank with him a stoup of wine, and then I went to church. It was a great shadowy church and I found it full.
Jaurez piloted me to where just under pulpit were ranged my fellow mariners, a hundred plain sailormen, no great number with which to widen the world! A score or so of better station were grouped at the head of these, and in front of all stood Christopherus Columbus.
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