"I have not your name, Signor," he said.
"They call me Battista de Cosca, a citizen of Genoa,but these many years a wanderer. And yours?"
Philip gave it and the stranger bowed. The de Lavals were known as a great house far beyond the confines of France.
"You contemplate another voyage?"
The brown man nodded. "I am here on the quest of maps, for these Venetians are the princes of mapmaking. Then I sail again."
"To Cathay?"