the commander, began to drift also; but she disappeared very soon, although all through the night the Admiral made signals with lights to her, and she answered as long as she could, till she was prevented, probably by the force of the tempest, and by her deviation from the course which the Admiral followed.”  Columbus did not see the Pinta again until she arrived at Palos.  He was himself driven fifty-four miles towards the northeast.

The journal continues.  “After sunrise the strength of the wind increased, and the sea became still more terrible.  The Admiral all this time kept his mainsail lowered, so that the vessel might rise from among the waves which washed over it, and which threatened to sink it.  The Admiral followed, at first, the direction of east-northeast, and afterwards due northeast.  He sailed about six hours in this direction, and thus made seven leagues and a half.  He gave orders that every sailor should draw lots as to who should make a pilgrimage to Santa Maria of Guadeloupe, to carry her a five-pound wax candle.  And each one took a vow that he to whom the lot fell should make the pilgrimage.

“For this purpose, he gave orders to take as many dry peas as there were persons in the ship, and to cut, with a knife, a cross upon one of them, and to put them all into a cap, and to shake them up well.  The first who put his hand in was the Admiral.  He drew out the dry pea marked with the cross; so it was upon him that the lot fell, and he regarded himself, after that, as a pilgrim, obliged to carry into effect the vow which he had thus taken.  They drew lots a second time, to select a person to go as pilgrim to Our Lady of Lorette, which is within the boundaries of Ancona, making a part of the States of the Church:  it is a place where the Holy Virgin has worked and continues to work many and great miracles.  The lot having fallen this time upon a sailor of the harbor of Santa Maria, named Pedro de Villa, the Admiral promised to give him all the money necessary for the expenses.  He decided that a third pilgrim should be sent to watch one night at Santa Clara of Moguer, and to have a mass said there.  For this purpose, they again shook up the dry peas, not forgetting that one which was marked with the cross, and the lot fell once again to the Admiral himself.  He then took, as did all his crew, the vow that, on the first shore which they might reach, they would go in their shirts, in a procession, to make a prayer in some church in invocation of Our Lady.”

“Besides the general vows, or those taken by all in common, each man made his own special vow, because nobody expected to escape.  The storm which they experienced was so terrible, that all regarded themselves as lost; what increased the danger was the circumstance that the vessel lacked ballast, because the consumption of food, water and wine had greatly diminished her load.  The hope of the continuance of weather as fine as that which they had experienced