:03:05
- How do you do, gentlemen?
- Are you the chart maker?
:03:08
- At your service.
- I am Lord Wolfingham.
:03:11
This is Don Alvarez de Cordoba,
ambassador from King Phillip of Spain.
:03:14
I am honored, Your Excellency and milord.
:03:16
I've been boasting to His Excellency
about English chart-making.
:03:20
I'm anxious for him
to see samples of your work.
:03:22
Perhaps some charts
you are in process of making?
:03:24
Certainly, sir.
:03:25
Would His Excellency
prefer navigation charts or maps?
:03:28
The charts, please.
:03:29
My government may wish
to compare them with their own.
:03:31
Very good, sir.
:03:34
If you will notice, sir, all my charts
are drawn on the very best parchment...
:03:38
and mounted on the finest linen.
:03:40
The numbers every half-inch
along the coastline...
:03:43
indicate the depth of the ocean in fathoms
at that point.
:03:46
This is very interesting.
:03:48
I just finished that
when you gentlemen came in.
:03:50
Here is a section
of the west coast of Africa.
:03:53
You will notice it is worked out
with such detail...
:03:55
that a navigator can sail through
waters unknown with perfect safety.
:03:59
- Yes, indeed. Excellent work.
- Here are some straits.
:04:02
Tricky to navigate, and if I may say so,
tricky to chart.
:04:07
What do the constellations
at the top of the map signify?
:04:10
Purely a decoration, milord.
:04:11
I take the constellation that has its zenith
over the charted territory.
:04:15
Every seaman knows them.
:04:16
Just like the Southern Cross
over the Strait of Magellan.
:04:19
Merely a conceit of mine
so that people may recognize my work.
:04:23
- Quite an original idea.
- Thank you, sir.
:04:27
This figure
with the dagger pointing down...
:04:30
- is Orion the Hunter, is it not?
- Yes, Your Excellency.
:04:33
Then Your Excellency has some knowledge
of astronomy?
:04:36
Not as much as I should like to have.
:04:38
They say that even our fortunes
rest with the stars.
:04:43
You see, gentlemen, the orbit of Orion
is approximately this narrow path...
:04:47
between the equator
and the 10-degree parallel.
:04:50
The constellation appears to move
overhead as the earth turns on its axis.
:04:55
Obviously, the section of land you are
seeking must be somewhere on this belt.