"There is nothing in the world more useful than knowing how to make maps and charts! While I waited for Kings to make up their minds I earned my living so." I glanced at the log and he pushed it to me so that I might see.

"Every day from Palos out." His strong fingers touched the other book.

"My journal that I keep for myself and the Queen and King Ferdinand and indeed for the world." He turned the leaves.

The bulk of them were blank, but in the front showed closely covered pages, the writing not large but clear and strong.

"This voyage, you see, changeth our world! Once in Venice I heard a scholar learned in the Greek tell of an old voyage of a ship called _Argo_, whence its captain and crew were named Argonauts, and he said that it was of all voyages most famous with the ancients.