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CHAPTER XXXVI
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"What d'ye think?
At the worst, in the middle night, there came to Don Alonso and the master the old seamen and would have him freed so that he might save us! They said that they had seen his double upon the poop, looking at the sea and waving his arm.

Then it vanished! They wanted the whole man, they wanted the Admiral! The master roared at them and sent them back, but if it had come to the worst--I don't know!" Cadiz--the _Santa Marta_ came to Cadiz.

Before us had arrived Bobadilla's ships, one, two and three.

What he found to say through his messengers of the Admiral and Viceroy was in the hands and eyes and ears of all.

He said at the height of his voice, across the ocean from Hispaniola, violent and villainous things.
Cadiz--Spain.


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