I feel as if I am taken aback a bit, just now, as it comes new to me--my own fancy being that you intended to trade with the Turkish ports and islands, and had taken a strong crew on board to beat off any pirates that they might meet." "And you, Pengarvan ?" "It is as I expected, Captain.

I thought that you did not bring the Spaniard on board at Cadiz, and sit plying him with wine, and talking to him by the hour, for nothing.

So when I saw what was being done on board the Swan, it came to me that you intended to try a venture in the Spanish main." "Here is a map which I got from the Spaniard," Reuben said, laying it out upon the table.

"Here, you see, all the great islands are marked in their places, with their ports and the Spanish settlements.

There are besides these, the Spaniard said, numbers of small ones not marked on the chart.