We might have sailed from Marseilles or Genoa and been sailing for a month.

If this were all, then no more terror from the Sea of Darkness than from our own so well-known sea! But Fernando said, "It is after the Canaries! We know well enough it is not so bad this side of them.

Why do they call them Dog Islands ?" "Perhaps they found dogs there." "No, but that they give warning like watchdogs! 'If you go any further it shall be to your woe!'" "Aye, aye! Have you heard tell of the spouting mountain ?" This night the wind came up and by morning was blowing stiffly, urging us landward as though back to Spain.

The sky became leaden, with a great stormy aspect.

The waves mounted, the lookout cried that the _Pinta_ was showing signals of distress.