Not Cathay, but a greater.

I sail presently, not the African seas, but the Sea of Darkness, the Mare Atlanticum." He nodded towards Bianco's map.

"I am going beyond the Ultimate Islands." "Listen," he went on, and his voice fell very low and deep.

"I take it we live in these latter days of which the prophets spoke.

I remember a monk in Genoa who said that the Blessed Trinity ruled in turn, and that the reign of the Father was accomplished and that of the Son nearing its close; and that now the reign of the Spirit was at hand.