CHAPTER V.HOW THEY FARED ON THE SEA OF DARKNESS.
Did you ever set out, in the dark, to walk with your little brother or sister along a road you did not know much about or had never gone over before?
It was not an easy thing to do, was it?
And how did your little brother or sister feel when it was known that you were not just certain whether you were right or not?
Do you remember what the Bible says about the blind leading the blind?
It was much the same with Columbus when he set out from Palos to sail over an unknown sea to find the uncertain land of Cathay.

He had his own idea of the way there, but no one in all his company had ever sailed it, and he himself was not sure about it.

He was very much in the dark.

And the sailors in the three ships were worse than little children.

They did not even have the confidence in their leader that your little brother or sister would probably have in you as you traveled that new road on a dark night.