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CHAPTER XXXVIII
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Audience was over.
For the rest he was courteous--asked of the voyage--and of the Admiral's notion of the Strait.

"A great man!" he said.

"A Thinker, a Seer." He sent him messages of courtesy three-piled.

And so we parted.
This was the Governor of whom one said long afterwards, "He was a good governor for white men, but not for Indians." As life and destiny would have it, in the place without the Governor's house I met him who was to say it.

Terreros and I with the same escort were for the water side, the _Consolacion's_ long boat.


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