DIEGO PINZON AND I THE FEARFUL VOYAGE HE TOOK INTO THE UNKNOWN
OCEAN A.D. 1492 BY JOHN RUSSELL CORYELL ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK HARPER
BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE 1892. ILLUSTRATIONS. quotTO THE MAST WITH
HIM BAID MARTIN quot ALONZO quot THINK TWICE, DID YOU SAT, FRAY
ANTO NIO, ASKED THE BOY, ERE I SET FOOT TO quot THE GROUND quot TUT
SAID THE FRIAR, TAKING DlEGO BY THE COLLAR AND LEADING HIM AWAYquot
. quot quot HE IT IS MY COUSIN S SON, DlEGO GOOD-DAY quot TO THEE,
LAD IS VERY YOUNG TO DIE, SAID A MOCK ING VOICEquot Frontispiece.
Facing p, 8 quotTHEN, LIKE A FLASH, FOR HE WAS A QUICK BOY, DlEGO
STRUCK THE OTHER BOY ON THE CHEEKquot 34 quot NOW GO FORWARD WHERE
YOU BELONGquot. quot 40 quot HUSH WHISPERED JUAN, SUDDENLY. THERE
IS A NOISE IN THE CABIN quot. . . quot quotMARTIN ALONZO
DISAPPEARED OVER THE quot THOU quot quot SIDEquot ART A TRUE
PlNZON, AND I AM PROUD quot OF THEE IF I HAD TOLD, YOU WOULD HAVE
BEEN HANGED UP THEREquot I SHALL SHOOT THE FIRST MAN WHO TRIES quot
TO DESERT JVJ304061 quot quot quot quot quot quot 18 22 32 58 66 88
96 106 IV ILLUSTRATIONS. quotNO TWO BOYS EVER FILLED CASKS WITH
SUCH EXPEDITION AS THOSE TWO DIDquot. YOU . . . Facing p. 110 quot
HEY, THERE SAID A MAN S VOICEquot TWOHAVEHAD ENOUGH, 411 quot COME,
SPEAK OUT, BOY quotALL OVER THE VESSEL COULD BE SEEN THOSE quot
STRONG MEN WEEPING quotTHE ADMIRAL WAS SPLENDIDLY ROBED IN A
BRILLIANT SCARLET CLOAK OVER HIS RICH AND GLITTERING ARMOR, AND
HELD THE ROYAL STANDARD IN HIS OWN HANDquot . . quotREFRESHING
THEMSELVES WITH THE FRUITS THAT WERE BROUGHT THEM BY THE NA quot
TIVES quot NOT quot JINGLEDITBEFORETHE EYESOF THESAVAGE BARTER FOR
GOLD CRIED MARTIN ALONZOquot quot DlEGO DROPPING THROUGH THE
BLACKNESS OF THENIGHTquot quotHE REACHED OUT AND CLUTCHED AT THE
FLOATING THINGquot quotTHERE quot THEY BOTH SANK DOWN .... quot
quot LOOK SAID DIEGO quotTHE CLEFT quot LIKE OPENING PROVED TO BE A
NARROW, CAVE- quot quot quot quot quot quot quot 118 130 138 154
156 160 164 190 194 quot 204 . . quotCAUGHT UP SOME OF THE TORCHES
AND AD VANCED IN A BODYquot quot quotOF COURSE THE KNIFE CUT HIS
FINGERS 4 FOR THREE NIGHTS THEY FLOATED DOWN THE STREAMquot quot
DIEGO WENT WITH JUAN TO SEE THE MAN UNCHAINEDquot DlEGO RELATES HIS
ADVENTURES TO THE CON VENT BOYS . quot quot quot quot quot quot
quot 212 214 220 232 244 252 288 DIEGO PINZON. CHAPTER I. IN the
ancient province of Andalusia, which, as everybody knows, is famous
for the charms of its climate and the fertility of its soil, there
stands now, as there stood four centuries ago, the convent of La
Rabida. The convent is almost a ruin now but in those days it was a
sturdy pile, where a busy, eager body of Franciscan friars dwelt,
governed by the learned and good Fray Juan Perez, who had once been
confessor to the queen, Isabella. Eow there is something mournful
in the soli tude ofthe place but in the dayswhen the things
happened which are set down here, there was a suppressed excitement
pervading the atmosphere of the convent, which had communicated
itself even to Fray Pedro, who had been given the post of porter
because he had what the good prior called such a singular gift of
slumber. There had been clays recently when Fray Pe dro had not
closed Ijis eyes for as long as tw consecutive hours and if he felt
the influence that was around him, what wonder if the boys, digging
away desperately at their humanities, should be wrought up to the
highest pitch of unrest and excitement Fray Bartolomeo was the
pedagogue, who had been selected for the office because of his
great but he searched the stores of hisknowl learning edge in vain
during those days for a device to turn the minds of the scholars
from the one topic that absorbed them...
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