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CHAPTER VIII
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Upshot is we've got to go, ships and men, or else be laid by the heels! As for Palos, her old sea privileges would be taken from her, and she couldn't face that.

Get those ships ready and stock them and pipe sailors aboard, or there'd be our kind Queen and King to deal with!" "Wherever it is, we're going.

Great folk are too tall and broad for us!" "So there comes another crowd in the square, before the church.

Out steps Captain Martin Pinzon, and he cries, 'Men of Palos, for all you doubt it, 'tis a glorious thing that's doing! Here is the _Nina_ that my brothers and I own.

She's going with Don Cristoval the Admiral, and the men who are bound to me for fishing and voyaging are going, and more than that, there is going Martin Alonso Pinzon, for I'll ask no man to go where I will not go!' "Then up beside him starts his brothers Vicente and Francisco, and they say they are going too.


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