"September
--October."
But it was not until March that we sailed on his last
voyage.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
THE ships were the _Consolacion_, the _Margarita_, the
_Juana_ and the _San Sebastian_, all caravels and small
ones, the _Consolacion_ the largest and the flagship.
The _Margarita_, that was the Adelantado's ship, sailed badly.
There was something as wrong with her as had been with
the _Pinta_ when we started from Palos in '92.
The men all told, crews and officers and adventurers,
were less than two hundred.
Pedro de Terreros, Bartholomew Fiesco, Diego Tristan,
Francisco de Porras were the captains of the caravels Juan
Sanchez and Pedro Ledesma the chief pilots. Bartholomew
Fiesco of the _Consolacion_ was a Genoese and wholly devoted
to the greater Genoese. We had for notary Diego Mendez.
There were good men upon this voyage, and very bold men.
The youth Fernando Colon sailed with his father. He was
now fourteen, Don Fernando, slim, intelligent, obedient and
loving always to the Admiral.
Days of bright weather, days and days of that marvelous
favorable wind that blows over Ocean-Sea. The twenty-
fifth of May the Canaries sank behind us. On and on, all
the sails steady.
We were not first for Hispaniola. All must be strange,
this voyage! Jamaica, not San Domingo, was our star.
Rest there a moment, take food and water, then forth and
away.
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