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Farewell, William; I hope you were not one of those whom they let out of gaol.
June slid into July, and still the preparations were not complete.

Down on the mud banks of the Tinto, where at low water the vessels were left high and dry, and where the caulking and refitting were in hand, there was trouble with the workmen.

Gomaz Rascon and Christoval Quintero, the owners of the Pinta, who had resented her being pressed into the service, were at the bottom of a good deal of it.