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in the preceding year, having taken not quite seven months and a half to accomplish this most momentous of all maritime enter prises.* * Works generally consulted in this chapter:—Las Casas, Hist. Ind., lib. i. cap. 17 ; Hist, del Almirante, cap. 39, 4 C , 4 i •„ Journal of Columb., Navarrete, torn. i.
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