DIEGO PINZON AND I THE FEARFUL VOYAGE HE TOOK INTO THE UNKNOWN OCEAN A.D. 1492 BY JOHN RUSSELL CORYELL ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK HARPER BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE 1892. ILLUSTRATIONS. quotTO THE MAST WITH HIM BAID MARTIN quot ALONZO quot THINK TWICE, DID YOU SAT, FRAY ANTO NIO, ASKED THE BOY, ERE I SET FOOT TO quot THE GROUND quot TUT SAID THE FRIAR, TAKING DlEGO BY THE COLLAR AND LEADING HIM AWAYquot . quot quot HE IT IS MY COUSIN S SON, DlEGO GOOD-DAY quot TO THEE, LAD IS VERY YOUNG TO DIE, SAID A MOCK ING VOICEquot Frontispiece. Facing p, 8 quotTHEN, LIKE A FLASH, FOR HE WAS A QUICK BOY, DlEGO STRUCK THE OTHER BOY ON THE CHEEKquot 34 quot NOW GO FORWARD WHERE YOU BELONGquot. quot 40 quot HUSH WHISPERED JUAN, SUDDENLY. THERE IS A NOISE IN THE CABIN quot. . . quot quotMARTIN ALONZO DISAPPEARED OVER THE quot THOU quot quot SIDEquot ART A TRUE PlNZON, AND I AM PROUD quot OF THEE IF I HAD TOLD, YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN HANGED UP THEREquot I SHALL SHOOT THE FIRST MAN WHO TRIES quot TO DESERT JVJ304061 quot quot quot quot quot quot 18 22 32 58 66 88 96 106 IV ILLUSTRATIONS. quotNO TWO BOYS EVER FILLED CASKS WITH SUCH EXPEDITION AS THOSE TWO DIDquot. YOU . . . Facing p. 110 quot HEY, THERE SAID A MAN S VOICEquot TWOHAVEHAD ENOUGH, 411 quot COME, SPEAK OUT, BOY quotALL OVER THE VESSEL COULD BE SEEN THOSE quot STRONG MEN WEEPING quotTHE ADMIRAL WAS SPLENDIDLY ROBED IN A BRILLIANT SCARLET CLOAK OVER HIS RICH AND GLITTERING ARMOR, AND HELD THE ROYAL STANDARD IN HIS OWN HANDquot . . quotREFRESHING THEMSELVES WITH THE FRUITS THAT WERE BROUGHT THEM BY THE NA quot TIVES quot NOT quot JINGLEDITBEFORETHE EYESOF THESAVAGE BARTER FOR GOLD CRIED MARTIN ALONZOquot quot DlEGO DROPPING THROUGH THE BLACKNESS OF THENIGHTquot quotHE REACHED OUT AND CLUTCHED AT THE FLOATING THINGquot quotTHERE quot THEY BOTH SANK DOWN .... quot quot LOOK SAID DIEGO quotTHE CLEFT quot LIKE OPENING PROVED TO BE A NARROW, CAVE- quot quot quot quot quot quot quot 118 130 138 154 156 160 164 190 194 quot 204 . . quotCAUGHT UP SOME OF THE TORCHES AND AD VANCED IN A BODYquot quot quotOF COURSE THE KNIFE CUT HIS FINGERS 4 FOR THREE NIGHTS THEY FLOATED DOWN THE STREAMquot quot DIEGO WENT WITH JUAN TO SEE THE MAN UNCHAINEDquot DlEGO RELATES HIS ADVENTURES TO THE CON VENT BOYS . quot quot quot quot quot quot quot 212 214 220 232 244 252 288 DIEGO PINZON. CHAPTER I. IN the ancient province of Andalusia, which, as everybody knows, is famous for the charms of its climate and the fertility of its soil, there stands now, as there stood four centuries ago, the convent of La Rabida. The convent is almost a ruin now but in those days it was a sturdy pile, where a busy, eager body of Franciscan friars dwelt, governed by the learned and good Fray Juan Perez, who had once been confessor to the queen, Isabella. Eow there is something mournful in the soli tude ofthe place but in the dayswhen the things happened which are set down here, there was a suppressed excitement pervading the atmosphere of the convent, which had communicated itself even to Fray Pedro, who had been given the post of porter because he had what the good prior called such a singular gift of slumber. There had been clays recently when Fray Pe dro had not closed Ijis eyes for as long as tw consecutive hours and if he felt the influence that was around him, what wonder if the boys, digging away desperately at their humanities, should be wrought up to the highest pitch of unrest and excitement Fray Bartolomeo was the pedagogue, who had been selected for the office because of his great but he searched the stores of hisknowl learning edge in vain during those days for a device to turn the minds of the scholars from the one topic that absorbed them...