He eyed me sharply as he spoke.
"We had never heard of it."
"Then what are Englishmen doing here so many months' journey from their own land? Why do you bring this red man with you?"
"We have been traveling, partly to forget sorrows laid upon us by the Great Spirit, partly to see new countries."
"Have you traveled far?"
"To the coast of the Western ocean."
He nodded again.
"What the Spaniards call the Pacifico?"
"Yes."
"And this red man?"