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1492

CHAPTER XIX
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Not so far there! "It must be," said Luis, "that Cuba is narrow, though without end westwardly.

A great point or tongue of Asia ?" The Cubans were strong young men and not unintelligent.

"Chiefs ?" Yes, they had chiefs, they called them _caciques_.

Some of them were fighters, they and their people.

Not fighters like Caribs! Whereupon the speaker rose--we were resting under a tree--and facing south, used for gesture a strong shudder and a movement as if to flee.
South--south--always they pointed south! We were going south--inland.
Would we come to Caribs?
But no.


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