The same action brought back to me Diego Lopez.
Speaking to him later of the tall man, he said that he had
noticed him, and that it was the Italian who would go to
India by way of Ocean-Sea.
King Boabdil gave up his city to King Ferdinand and
Queen Isabella. Over Granada, high against the bright sky,
rose and floated the banners. Cannon, the big lombards,
roared. Mars' music crashed out, then the trumpets ceased
their crying and instead spread a mighty chanting. _Te Deum
Laudamus!_
At last the massed brightness out in the plain quivered
and parted. The pageantry broke, wide curving and returning
with some freedom but with order too, into Santa Fe.
I saw the Queen and the King with their children, and the
Grand Cardinal, and prelates and prelates, and the Marquis
of Cadiz, and many a grandee and famous knight. Don
Enrique de Cerda and his troop came by.
Diego Lopez and I returned to the town. I saw again
the man who would find India by a way unpassed, as far as
one knew, since the world began! He was entering a house
with a friar beside him. Something came into my mind of
the convent of La Rabida.
CHAPTER V
SOME days went by. The King and the Queen with the
court and a great train of prelates and grandees and
knights rode in state through Granada. Don Enrique,
returning, told me of it in his room at night, of the Christian
service in the mosque and the throning in the Alhambra.
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