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1492

CHAPTER XXVII
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He went ashore to his own house, and his illness growing worse he died there.

Well, he had qualities." "Aye," I answered, with a vision of the big, bluff, golden-haired man.
"Vicente Pinzon is here; his ship the _Cordera_ yonder.

What's the stir now?
The Admiral will go to see Guacanagari ?" That, it seemed, was what it was, and presently came word that Juan Lepe should go with him.

A body of cavaliers sumptuously clad, some even wearing shining corselet, greaves and helm, was forming about him who was himself in a magnificent dress.

Besides these were fifty of the plainer sort, and there lacked not crossbow, lance and arquebus.


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