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Christopher Columbus

CHAPTER IV
12/22

Later, when Spain discovers that her privileges have been abated, he will have to issue another Bull; but not to-day.

Sufficient unto the day are the Bulls thereof.

For the moment King proposes and Pope disposes; but the matter lies ultimately in the hands of the two eternal protagonists, man and God.
In the meantime here are six heathen alive and well, or at any rate well enough to support, willy-nilly, the rite of holy baptism.

They must have been sufficiently dazed and bewildered by all that had happened to them since they were taken on board the Admiral's ship, and God alone knows what they thought of it all, or whether they thought anything more than the parrots that screamed and fluttered and winked circular eyes in the procession with them.

Doubtless they were willing enough; and indeed, after all they had come through, a little cold water could not do them any harm.


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