One interrupted, "We'd need them to keep the flying angels from looking in!" "It was Cipango," persisted Francisco, "for the Emperor himself came and gave me a rope of pearls.

There were five thousand of them, and each would buy a house or a fine horse or a suit of velvet.

And the Emperor took me by the hand, and he said, 'Dear Brother--' You might have thought I was a king--and by the mass, I was a king! I felt it right away! And then he took me into a garden, and there were three beautiful women, and one of them would push me to the other, and that one to the third, and that to the first again, as though they were playing ball, and they all laughed, and I laughed.

Then there came a great person with five crowns on his head, and all the light blazed up gold and blue, and somebody said, 'It's Prester John'!" His dream kept a two-days' serenity upon the ship.

It came to the ear of the Admiral, who said, "'In dreams will I instruct thee.'-- I have had dreams far statelier than his." Pedro Gutierrez too began to dream,--fantastic things which he told with an idle gusto.