He, too, had family fortunes and aggrandizement at heart, though hardly on the grand, imperial scale of the Admiral.

He had much manly beauty, daring and strength.

His two brothers worshipped him, and in most places and moments his crew would follow him with a cheer.

The Admiral was bound to him, not only in that he had volunteered and made others to go willingly, but that he had put in his ship, the _Nina_, and had furnished Master Christopherus with monies.

That eighth of the cost of the expedition, whence else could it come?
If it tied Martin Pinzon to the Admiral, seeing that only through success could those monies be repaid, it likewise made him feel that he, too, had authority, was at liberty to advise, and at need to become critical.
But the Admiral had the great man's mark.