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1492

CHAPTER XXXII
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He maneuvers now in the Vega." I looked around.

We were sitting under palm trees, by the mud wall of our town.

Beyond the forest waved in the wind, and soft white clouds sailed over it in a sky of essential sapphire.

"There's an aspect here of peace!" "That is because Guacanagari, from his new town, holds his people still.
For that Indian the scent of godship has not yet departed! He sees the Admiral always as a silver-haired hero bringing warmth and light.

He is like a dog for fidelity!--But I saw three Indians from outside his country curse him in the name of all the other tribes, with a kind of magical ceremony.


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