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1492

CHAPTER XXV
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I had seen Pedro in the gate, going forth.
Fourteen men, two of whom were ill and two wounded, stayed at La Navidad.

Arana said with passion, "Honest men and a garrison at one! There is some gain!" That could not be denied.

Gain here, but how about it yonder?
It was May.

And now the rain fell in a great copious flood, huge-dropped and warm, and now it was restrained for a little, and there shone a sun confused and fierce.

Earth and forest dripped and streamed and smoked.
We were Andalusians, but the heat drained us.


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