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1492

CHAPTER XIV
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"Well, we've had luck, senor! Saint Noah himself, say I, wasn't any luckier!" "Yes, we've done well!" Beltran the cook's great easy voice rolled in.

"Fear's your only barnacle, say I!" Luis Torres said, "When I studied Arabic and the Hebrew, I thought it was for the pleasure of it.

They said around me, 'How you waste your time!' But now some about the Grand Khan should know Arabic.

I will be of use." Pedro said, "Well, it has turned out better than any reasonable man could have expected!" and Fernando, "Yes, it has! Of course there may be witches.

I've heard it said there are great necromancers in India!" "Necromancers! That's them that show you a thing and then blow it away--" I said, "Do you not know that all of us are the only necromancers ?" "Did you see," asked Sancho, "the glistering in the water?
Are we going to lie to after midnight?
Saint George! I would like to plunge in and swim!" On poop deck, Diego de Arana called me to him.


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