The dawn made way for the sun that with a face broader than a buckler began to rise slowly above the low line of the horizon; Don Quixote and Sancho gazed all round them; they beheld the sea, a sight until then unseen by them; it struck them as exceedingly spacious and broad, much more so than the lakes of Ruidera which they had seen in La Mancha. They saw the galleys along the beach, which, lowering their awnings, displayed themselves decked with streamers and pennons that trembled in the breeze and kissed and swept the water, while on board the bugles, trumpets, and clarions were sounding and filling the air far and near with melodious warlike notes.
Tendieron don Quijote y Sancho la vista por todas partes: vieron el mar, hasta entonces dellos no visto; parecióles espaciosísimo y largo, harto más que las lagunas de Ruidera, que en la Mancha habían visto; vieron las galeras que estaban en la playa, las cuales, abatiendo las tiendas, se descubrieron llenas de flámulas y gallardetes, que tremolaban al viento y besaban y barrían el agua; dentro sonaban clarines, trompetas y chirimías, que cerca y lejos llenaban el aire de suaves y belicosos acentos.