ormy night one ship from the others. The _Cordera_
anchored by a tall, rocky islet and rode out the storm. Here, when it
was calm, we went ashore, but found no man, only an unreckonable number
of pigeons. The Admiral lay on clean, warm sand and rested with his eyes
shut. I was glad we were nigh to Isabella and his house there, for I did
not think him well. He sat up, embracing his great knees and looking at
the sea and the _Cordera_. "I have been thinking, Doctor."

"For your health, my Admiral, I wish you could rest a while from
thinking!"

"We were upon the south side of Mangi. I am assured of that! Could I,
this time, have sailed on--Now I see it!"

He dropped his hands from his knees and turned full toward me. I saw
that lying thus for an hour he had gathered strength and now was passed,
as he was wont to pass after quiet, into a high degree of vision,
accompanied by forth-going energy. "Now I see, and as soon as I may,
I will do! Beyond Mangi, Champa. Beyond Champa, the coast trending
southward, India of the Ganges and the Golden Chersonese. Land of
Gold--Land of Gold!--are they not forever pointing southward? But it
is not of gold--or wholly gold--that now I think! _Aurea Chersonesus_
maketh a vast peninsula, greater maybe than Italy, Greece and Spain
taken together. But I will round it, and I will come to the mouth of
Ganges! Then again, I read, we go southward! There is the Kingdom of
Maabar where Saint Thomas is buried, and the Kingdom of Monsul where the
diamonds are found. Then we come to the Island of Zeilan, where is the
Tomb of our Father Adam. Here are sapphires, amethysts, topaz, garnet
and rubies. There is a ruby here beyond price, large as a man's two
fists and a well of red fire. But what I should think most of would be
to stand where Adam laid him down.--Now from the Island of Zeilan I sail
across the India sea. And I go still south, three hundred leagues, and I
find the great island of Madagascar whose people are Saracens and there
is the rukh-bird that can lift an elephant, and they cut the red sandal
there and find ambergris. Then lifteth Zanzibar whose women are monsters
and where the market is in elephant teeth. And so I come at last to
the extremity of Africa which Bartholomew Diaz found--my brother, Don
Bartholomew being with him--and named Good Hope. So I round Good Hope,
and I come home by Cape Bojador which I myself have seen. I will pass
Fez and Ercilla and the straits and Cadiz. I will