O Conto de la Ilha Desconhecida (The Tale of the Unknown Island)

A man knocked at the king’s door and said: 

– “Give me a boat!”

– “And what do you want a boat for, one might ask?” – said the king, when he finally found himself installed, rather uncomfortably, in the cleaning lady`s chair.

– “To look for the unknown island” – replied the man.

The neighbouring women that were watching from their windows enthusiastically joined the chorus, shouting like all the others: 

– “Give him the boat! Give him the boat!”

Facing such a loud and strong manifestation of the people`s desire and worried about what, in the meantime, he might had been losing at the favours` door, the king raised his right hand to impose silence and said: 

– “I’ll give you a boat, but you’ll have to find the crew yourself. I need my sailors for the known islands”.