CHAPTER VIII
LA RABIDA
It was a warm summer day, and rolling chairs, launches and gondolas were in great demand. At Fanny's suggestion they decided to take an electric launch and go around to La Rabida, where the relics of Columbus were kept. She accosted one of the guards who attends to the moorings by asking how near the launch would take them to La Rabida.
"La-Ra-La what? I don't think I know what that is," said the guide.
"La Rabida is the convent—the Columbus relics are there. Columbus was the man who discovered America," Aunt volunteered to tell him.
"Oh, yes; I have heard of Columbus, of course, but I haven't been here very long."
"Well, the convent is over at the lake end of the Agricultural building. Do the launches go there?"
"The Agricultural building? Let me see; that is over——"
"Do you know where the colonnade is?"