This is the map of which my Cousin Diggory has no doubt spoken to you.

You see that the islands are many, and some of them great; and that the places at which the Spaniards have ports are few, in comparison.

We have to avoid these, but anywhere else we can open trade with the natives.

If we are chased, and find the place too hot for us, we can make away to the mainland and, cruising along there, may come upon places that the Spaniards have never visited, and may there gather great store of gold and silver, without danger.

But I wish no one, and certainly not my Cousin Diggory, to enter upon this affair unless with confidence and good heart.