"Rabbit Leg, come over here! First have some stew—fish, kelp, and cassava soup. Then, properly, bit by bit, tell me everything you saw and remember, whether it's useful or not!…"
The slanting sun sank, and along the shores of West Haiti, all was tranquil and still. The deep blue Caribbean Sea shimmered with rosy clouds, yet beneath that radiance, dark currents were surging and roaring.
Early the next morning, five canoes were made ready; Xiu Maoying took Rabbit Foot and set out at once. The Caribbean Sea was so vast that even from Marine Stone Department in West Haiti to Kingdom Iron Bay Town in Eastern Cuba, the voyage ran close to a thousand li! And from San Juan Bay, where the Castilian Expeditionary Army had landed, to Cuba's Iron Bay Town, the sea route stretched to nearly three thousand li!
