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CHAPTER XXVII
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Seen from the mountain brow, enormous good, I think.

In the long run I am fain to think that all have their market here, you no less than I, Guacanagari no less than the Admiral." "I do not know that," he said.

"It seems to me the sunny day is dark." I said, "In the main all things work together, and in the end is honey." Out they came from palm-roofed house, the Admiral of the Ocean-Sea and Viceroy of what Indies he could find for Spain and Spain could take, and the Indian king or grandee or princeling.

Perceiving that what he did was appreciated for what it was, Guacanagari had recovered his lameness.
The cotton was no longer about his thigh; he moved straight and lightly,--a big, easy Indian.
It was now well on in the afternoon, but he would go with the Mighty Stranger, the Great Cacique his friend, to see the ships and all the wonders.

His was a childlike craving for pure novelty and marvel.
So we went, all of us, back through vast woodland to cerulean water.
Water was deep, the _Marigalante_ rode close in, and about and beyond her the _Santa Clara_, the _Cordera_, the _San Juan_, the _Juana_, another _Nina_, the _Beatrix_ and many another fair name.


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