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"The High-Admiral of the Ocean-Sea and Viceroy and Governor-General of the islands and mainland of Asia and the Indies, belonging to the King and Queen, my Lords, and the Captain-General of the Sea, and a Member of their Council. .S. .S.A.S. X M Y Xpo FERENS."
Then I went to Valladolid and the Queen and the King were there, and they said, 'He has just sailed, Don Bartholomew, from Cadiz with sixteen ships your great brother who hath crossed Ocean-Sea and bound to us Asia! But, sweet Jesu, what entertainment they gave me, all because I had lain in our old wooden cradle at Genoa a couple of years or so after you! Genoa!
"The High-Admiral of the Ocean-Sea and Viceroy and Governor-General of the islands and mainland of Asia and the Indies, belonging to the King and Queen, my Lords, and the Captain-General of the Sea, and a Member of their Council. .S. .S.A.S. X M Y Xpo FERENS."
This will. It ran at length through preamble and body. "In the name of the most Holy Trinity who revealed it to me that I could sail westward across Ocean-Sea "As it pleased God, in the year one thousand, four hundred and ninety-two, I discovered the Continent of the Indies and many islands.
Master Bernardo had in his cabin drugs and tinctures, and we breathed now all the salt of Ocean-Sea, and the ship was clean. I talked to Beltran the cook about diet, and I chose Sancho and a man that I liked, one Luis Torres, for nurses. Two others sickened this night, and one the next day, but none afterward. None died; in ten days all were recovered. Other ailments aboard I doctored also.
Shuddering and filled with dread, my grandfather turned away, and seeing several countrymen passing, he inquired if all was over. "Yes," said they, "and the soldiers are slockening the ashes; but a' the waters of the ocean-sea will never quench in Scotland the flame that was kindled yonder this day."
Large or small, they called it blasphemy for me, a poor, plain seaman, son of a wool-comber and not even a Spanish wool-comber, to try to stretch mind over it! Ocean-Sea had never been overpassed, and by that token could not be overpassed! None had met its dangers, so dangers there must be of a most strange and fearful nature!
I knew that he was writing in that book too ardently, and that he was even now composing letters to great persons to be dispatched from what Spanish port he should first enter, coming back east from west, over Ocean-Sea, from Asia! But he had long, long followed his own advice, stood by his own course. The doing so had so served him that it was natural he should have confidence.
And because of his white hair, and because he carried himself in that absurd way that makes the undiscerning cry, 'Ah, my lord king in disguise! the porter must have him in, and by and by comes the prior and stands to talk with him, 'From where? 'From Cordova. 'Whither? 'To Portugal. 'For why? 'To speak again with King John! 'Are you in the habit of speaking with kings? 'Aye, I am! 'About what, may I ask? 'About the finding of India by way of Ocean-Sea, the possession of idolatrous countries and the great wealth thereof, and the taking of Christ to the heathen who else are lost!"
"And if thus and thus is found to be the case, the said Admiral of the Ocean-Sea shall give into your hands, ships, fortresses, arms, houses and treasure, and he shall himself be obedient to your command." The Admiral said, "If it be found thus and thus! But how shall he find it, seeing that it is not so?" We rode to San Domingo, but not many rode. He would not have many.
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