Many of the nobles belonging to the Council of Education were present, and Montezuma himself is fond of art.

All were greatly struck with your paintings, and these certainly went a long way towards strengthening my party.

When we get back, you shall do some pictures of things such as they see here, and are accustomed to.

Perhaps you could do even better, still, if you were to try." "I could make much more finished pictures," Roger said.

"These were only sketched off in haste, and with such colors as came to hand; but if I had pigments, and could mix the colors as I wanted them, I could produce very much better effect." Roger, as a child, had been placed by his father, during the latter's long absences from home, at a school kept by some monks at a monastery at Plymouth, in order that he might learn to read and write--as these accomplishments would be of great use to him, as a master mariner.