IV DOMENICO
VI IN PORTUGAL
VII ADVENTURES BODILY AND SPIRITUAL
VIII THE FIRE KINDLES
XIII EVENTS OF THE FIRST VOYAGE
XIV LANDFALL
THE NEW WORLD
III THE VOYAGE HOME
VII THE EARTHLY PARADISE REVISITED
DESPERATE REMEDIES
III UPS AND DOWNS
VI AN INTERLUDE
VII THE THIRD VOYAGE (continued)
TOWARDS THE SUNSET
II CRISIS IN THE ADMIRAL’S LIFE
III THE LAST VOYAGE
IV HEROIC ADVENTURES BY LAND AND SEA
THY WAY IS THE SEA,
AND THY PATH IN THE GREAT WATERS,
AND THY FOOTSTEPS ARE NOT KNOWN.
BOOK I.
THE INNER LIGHT
CHAPTER I
THE STREAM OF THE WORLD
A man standing on the sea-shore is perhaps as ancient and as primitive a symbol of wonder as the mind can conceive. Beneath his feet are the stones and grasses of an element that is his own, natural to him, in some degree belonging to him,