Perhaps he would
have been a good one, but it didn't pay any better than his stint in Con-
gress-not even as well, in fact-and he'd long since decided to apply his
talent to something that could make him a decent living,
The rest of the game was a lot easier! In fact, his precise
plans were to spend the next few months learning how to sail Cristobol as
expertly as he did everything else in his life, and then to duplicate the voy-
ages of discovery, one every summer, until he ran out of examples to follow,
and then maybe write his own book about it.