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1492

CHAPTER XXVIII
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And the bull that we goad to madness for a game in Spain--were barriers down would come a-scrambling! This cacique had never seen an animal larger than a fox or a dog, Yet he stood with steadiness, though his glance shot here and there.

The stallion was restless and fiery-eyed; the bull sent forth a bellow.

"Why do they come?
What will they do here?
Will you put them in the forest?
The people will be afraid to wander!" He looked away to sky and sea and shore.

"It grows toward night," he said.

"I will go back to my town." The Admiral said, "I would first show you the Caribs," and took him there where they were bound.


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