But it may be wider than I think.

We may not come even to some fringing island in eight hundred leagues, no, nor in more than that! If it be a thousand, if it be two thousand, on I go! But after the seven hundred is passed, it will be hard to keep them in hand.

So, though we are covering more, I let them think we are covering only this." I could but laugh.

Two reckonings! After all, he was not Italian for nothing! "The master knows," he said, "and also Diego de Arana.

But at least one other should know.