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1492

CHAPTER XXXVII
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As for native pride and its hurt he salves that with great enterprises.

It is his way.

Drouth?
Frost?
Out of both he rises, green and hopeful as grass in May!" "What of the Voyage ?" asked Juan Lepe.
"That's the enterprise that will go through.

Now that Portugal and Vasco da Gama are actually in at the door, it behooves us--more and more it behooves us," said Bartolomeo Colombo, "to find India of All the Wealth! Spain no less than Portugal wants the gold and diamonds, the drugs and spices, the fine, thin, painted cloths, the carved ivory and silver and amber.

'Land, land, so much land!' says King Ferdinand.


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