The chain of galley slaves had by this time come up, and Don Quixote in very courteous language asked those who were in custody of it to be good enough to tell him the reason or reasons for which they were conducting these people in this manner.
Llegó, en esto, la cadena de los galeotes, y don Quijote, con muy corteses razones, pidió a los que iban en su guarda fuesen servidos de informalle y decille la causa, o causas, por que llevan aquella gente de aquella manera.