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1492

CHAPTER XXXVII
20/22

'But _wealth_?
It is all out-go! Even your Crusade were a beggarly Crusade!'" "Ha! That hurt him!" quoth Fray Juan Perez.
"Says the King.

'Pedro Alonso Nino has made for us the most profitable voyage of any who have sailed from Cadiz.' 'From Cadiz, but not from Palos,' answers the Admiral." "Ha! Easy 'tis when he has shown the way!" said Fray Juan Perez.
Don Bartholomew drew with the Prior's stick in the sand at our feet.

"He conceives it thus.

Here to the north is Cuba, stretching westward how far no man knoweth.

Here to the south is Paria that he found--no matter what Ojeda and Nino and Cabral have done since!--stretching westward how far no man knoweth, and between is a great sea holding Jamaica and we do not know what other islands.


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