CHAPTER X.FROM PARADISE TO PRISON.
If you know a boy or a girl whose mind is set on any one thing, you will find that they are always talking about that thing.

Is not this so?
They have what people call a "hobby" (which is a kind of a horse, you know), and they are apt, as we say, to "ride their hobby to death." If this is true of certain boys and girls, it is even more true of men and women.

They get to be what we call people of one idea, and whatever they see or whatever they do always turns on that one idea.
It was so with Columbus.

All his life his one idea had been the finding of Asia--the Indies, or Cathay, as he called it--by sailing to the west.
He did sail to the west.

He did find land.