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1492

CHAPTER XXXIII
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He sent Don Diego, a gentle, able man who longed for a cloister and a few hundred monks, fatherly, admirably, to rule.
Antonio de Torres stayed few weeks in Hispaniola.

The Viceroy and Admiral would have his letter in the royal hands.

Torres took that and took gold and strange plants, and also six hundred Indian captives to be sold for slaves.
War went on in Hispaniola, but not for long.

We had horses and bloodhounds and men in armor, trained in the long Moorish strife.

There was a battle in the Vega that ended as it must end.
Behechio and Anacaona fled to the high mountains.


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