So he will get time in which to have from the Holy Father another bull that will place the Portuguese line west and west until he hath the whole!" He raised his hand and let it fall.

"I cannot sail to-morrow, but I will sail the day after!" We were put to hard labor for the rest of that day, and through much of the moonlit night.

By early morning again we labored.

At mid-afternoon all was done.

The _Pinta_, right from stem to stern, rode the blue water; the Nina had her great square sails.