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CHAPTER XXXI
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Ten chances of there being one in which I may come home!" "There have been worse dreams!" said Juan Lepe.
"I warrant you! But I am not dreaming." He rose and stood with arms outstretched, crosswise.
"'Nought is hid,' saith Scripture, 'but shall be found!' Here is Earth.
Do you not think that one day we shall go all about it?
Aye, freely, freely! With zest and joy, discovering that it is a loved home.

For every road some man or men broke the clods!" They hailed us from the _Cordera_.

One had seen from topmast the _Santa Clara_.
Still we sailed by the south coast of Hispaniola.

We knew now that it was not Cipango.

But it was a great island, natheless, and one day might be as Cipango.


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