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1492

CHAPTER XXXI
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"If they heard--" "Are you in earnest ?" He put his hands over his eyes.

"Sometimes I think it may be fact, sometimes not! Sorcery is a fact, and who knows how far it may go?
At times my brain is like to crack, I have so cudgeled it!" That he cudgeled it was true, and though his brain never cracked and to the end was the best brain in a hundred, yet from this time forth I began to mark in him an unearthliness.
These islands we named the Queen's Gardens, and escaping from them came again to clean coast.

On we went for two days, and this part of Cuba had many villages, at sea edge or a little from the water, and all men and women were friendly and brought us gifts.
I remember a moonlight night.

All were aboard the _Cordera_, the _Santa Clara_ and the _San Juan_, for we meant to sail at dawn.

We had left a village yet dancing and feasting.


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