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Christopher Columbus

CHAPTER III
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When they arrived I gave orders that they should be adorned with our things and sent them immediately ashore.

There I saw a tomb within the mountain as large as a house and finely worked with great artifice, and a corpse stood thereon uncovered, and, looking within it, it seemed as if he stood upright.

Of the other arts they told me that there was excellence.

Great and little animals are there in quantities, and very different from ours; among which I saw boars of frightful form so that a dog of the Irish breed dared not face them.

With a cross-bow I had wounded an animal which exactly resembles a baboon only that it was much larger and has a face like a human being.


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