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1492

CHAPTER XXIII
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Guacanagari employed gestures and words that Luis Torres and I strove to understand.

We gathered that several times in the memory of man the Caribs had come in many canoes, warred dreadfully, killed and taken away.

More than that, somewhere in Hayti or Quisquaya or Hispaniola were certain people who knew the weapon.

"Caonabo!" He repeated the name with respect and disliking.

"Caonabo, Caonabo!" Perhaps the Caribs had made a settlement.
Diego fastened a leaf upon the bark of a tree and from a great distance transfixed it with an arrow, then in succession sent four others against the trunk, making precisely the form of a cross.


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