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Title: The Amazons of South America; thrilling adventures of reckless buccaneers and daring freebooters
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Stevens, Charles McClellan, 1861- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Amazons
Publisher: Chicago, A. Belford & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ed around ascurious listeners. Christoval Colon, as an humble medium of heavenI am inspired to tell you not tO despair before thedawn of the glorious achievements just before you.I see you traversing an ocean wide and long as athousand years, toward the broken cross of a mightycontinent, on which there are countless millions livingin universal darkness. A new Canaan, wide and longas the ocean, you will give to the conquering sons ofSpain, and the holy men of this and other Christianlands, will add another world to the glory of God.In a few weeks the fate of the Moors will be sealedand the victors will be more easily turned from theglories of war to the greater glories of the heavenlykingdom. But first another royal hearing must besecured, and I can carry such conviction to our gra-cious Queen that she will make sure our gloriouscause. An impatient signal from the leader of the gaylycaparisoned train was sounded, a hurried conferencetook place, and it was then decided to send Sebastian
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MERIDA 41 Rodriguez, the shrewd pilot of Lepe, to Santa Fe witha letter from the learned prior addressed tO the spir-itual emotions of the devoted Queen, strongly urginganother interview for a more comprehensive consid-eration of the great evangelical crusade proposed byChristoval Colon. Meantime, the Marchioness spoke a few words toMerida, and kindly dismissed her, when the great dis-coverer took the peasant girls hands in his and kissedthem. In a few minutes the cavalcade swept away,and Merida, with bowed head, walked down the hilland across the fields toward her cottage home. Within the week Sebastian Rodriguez started onhis mission and fourteen days later returned with aletter from Queen Isabella requesting Prior Perez tocome at once to the court. The enthusiastic friar didnot wait for the coming day, but saddled his mule andset out for Santa Fe at midnight. He rode on throughthe newly conquered territory of the Moors, and,arriving at Santa Fe, soon gained an opportunity toplead t

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