For such love,
though natural to women, is apt to turn to something that partakes of
selfishness, and to cause him who bears it to think all else of small
account. His children were nothing to my father when compared to my
mother, and he would have been content to lose them every one if thereby
he might have purchased back her life. But after all it was a noble
infirmity, for he thought little of himself and had gone through much to
win her.
Of my voyage to Cadiz, to which port I had learned that de Garcia's ship
was bound, there is little to be told. We met with contrary winds in
the Bay of Biscay and were driven into the harbour of Lisbon, where we
refitted. But at last we came safely to Cadiz, having been forty days at
sea.
CHAPTER VII
ANDRES DE FONSECA
Now I shall dwell but briefly on all the adventures which befell me
during the year or so that I remained in Spain, for were I to set out
everything at length, this history would have no end, or at least mine
would find me before I came to it.
Many travellers have told of the glories of Seville, to which
ancient Moorish city I journeyed with all speed, sailing there up the
Guadalquiver, and I have to tell of lands from which no other wanderer
has returned to England, and must press on to them. To be short then;
foreseeing that it might be necessary for me to stop some time in
Seville, and being desirous to escape notice and to be at the smallest
expense possible, I bethought me that it would be well if I could find
means of continuing my studies of medicine, and to this end I obtained
certain introductions from the firm of merchants to whose care I had
been recommended, addressed to doctors of medicine in Seville.
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