"I tried it once, and although the negroes and Indians of Porto Rico were certainly a very different people to these savages, still the life led on these great plains and hills, abounding with game, is more lively than being cooped up in a wood, as I was then.

Besides, I don't mean that we should be here always.

I propose that we try and cross the continent.

It is not so very wide here, and we are nearly in a line with Lima.

The admiral means to go on there, and expects a rich booty.