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1492

CHAPTER XXVIII
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Out of boat sprang men running after them, running across low white lines of foam.

The women, that strong woman cacique ahead, left water, raced across sand toward forest.

Two men were gaining, they caught at the least swift woman.

The dark, naked form broke from them, leaped like a hurt deer and running at speed passed with all into the ebony band that was forest.
Alonso de Ojeda burst into a great laugh.

"Well done, Catalina!" The Admiral's place could ever be told by his head over all.


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