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1492

CHAPTER XXX
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Of his following one out of ten lay in prison for a month.

Of the seamen concerned three were flogged and all had their pay estopped.
One might say that Isabella was builded.

Columbus himself stood and moved in better health.

Now he would go discovering on dry land, to Alonso de Ojeda's glee, glee indeed of many.

The mountains of Cibao, where might be the gold,--and gold must be had! And we might find Caonabo, and what peoples were behind our own mountains, and perhaps come upon Guacanagari.


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