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1492

CHAPTER XXXVII
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I will read you his mind! 'Master Christopherus Columbus hath had too much from the beginning.

Nor is he necessary as he was.

When the breach is made, any may take the fortress! I will leave him and give him what I must but no more!' He will send at last another than Bobadilla, but not again, if he can help it, the old Viceroy! Of course there is the Queen, but she has many sorrows these days, and fails, they say, in health." "It may be," said Juan Lepe.

"I myself were content for him to rest The Admiral only.

But his mind is yet a hawk towering over land and sea and claiming both for prize.


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