Category: Historical Novels
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.
ALTHOUGH under not more than half her full spread of sail, the _Pinta_ was dashing freely through the constantly roughening water, responding, like the good sailer she was, to t...
5. CHAPTER IV.DIEGO looked into the eyes of the boy who stood by his side, and in their sullen depths he saw a gleam of malicious triumph, which he did not fail to understand. The boy was glo...
23. CHAPTER XXII.DIEGO was an excellent swimmer, and his instinctive movement was to keep himself afloat the instant he found himself in the water; but in his heart there was nothing but despair...
27. CHAPTER XXVI.CAONABO, Cacique of Maguana, differed so strikingly in his appearance and manner from his subjects that the boys were struck by it at their first glance at him. He was not only...
4. CHAPTER III.DIEGO’S terror of his cousin was in no wise assumed--it was very real; for Martin Alonzo Pinzon, besides being the acknowledged head of the Pinzon family and a very masterful ma...
24. CHAPTER XXIII.IT would be hard by mere imagination to comprehend the terrors the boys experienced as they crept stealthily along the foot of the cliff. Before reaching the corner, around whic...
3. CHAPTER II.WHILE the little fleet destined for the mad enterprise lay in port, it was considered advisable to restrain the boys of the convent school within the walls. So it came about tha...
7. CHAPTER VI.IT was very fortunate for the well-disposed few, as well as for the disaffected majority of the crew, that the _Pinta_ was commanded by so able a sailor and so cool-headed a man...
10. CHAPTER IX.DIEGO left the cabin very happy in the praise of his cousin and in the fact of the reconciliation that had taken place between them; but there was something still lacking to com...
18. CHAPTER XVII.DAYLIGHT comes and goes quickly in those latitudes, and it seemed to the waiting, watching men as if a veil had suddenly been lifted from before their eyes, when a small wooded...
22. CHAPTER XXI.NOTHING less than the strong desire to escape from the domination of the admiral would ever have kept Martin Alonzo beating to windward in that storm, when he could have run bef...
26. CHAPTER XXV.BEING relieved of immediate fear, though still uneasy for the future, the boys endeavored to make the Indians understand that they wished to go to the mountain range to the nort...
20. CHAPTER XIX.IF the boys were easily reconciled to the loss of the gold which they had at first sought with such avidity, the same was not the case with Martin Alonzo; although even he cared...
15. CHAPTER XIV.THE slight breeze that filled the sails of the fleet on leaving Gomera had died away during the night into a dead calm; so that when Juan and Diego came on deck in the morning t...
16. CHAPTER XV.ON Sunday, which was the third day after the admiral had received intelligence of the caravels, and which was the 9th of September, the day broke and saw the fleet drifting abou...
12. CHAPTER XI.VERY beautiful, indeed, are those islands which the ancients had called the Fortunate, but which in Diego’s day were known as the Canaries. Some of them rise sheer and rugged al...
13. CHAPTER XII.THE boys were not badly matched for a struggle, and each realized it as he measured the other in the moment that intervened before they threw themselves on each other.
9. CHAPTER VIII.PERHAPS if Diego had been better acquainted with his cousin than he was, he would not have dared to brave him, though the provocation had been twice what it was and his own indi...
8. CHAPTER VII.AN audible murmur ran through the crowd of spectators, and Martin Alonzo knew, without looking, that it was caused as much by the well-disposed as by the disaffected among the c...
14. CHAPTER XIII.THE man walked off in order that he might not be suspected of offering assistance to the boys, and they went by separate ways to where Martin Alonzo was angrily shouting their n...
29. CHAPTER XXVIII.WHETHER or not the admiral ever learned of the loss and subsequent return of Diego and Juan cannot be known. Certain it is that he made no mention of their adventure in his acco...
28. CHAPTER XXVII.THE boys stood waiting for the boats to come nearer to where they were; but as it took the boats some time to reach that point, owing to the tide and current running together, t...
17. CHAPTER XVI.WHILE the crew of the _Pinta_ were rejoicing over the certain indications of land, Diego chanced to look towards the other vessels, and saw that the _Santa Maria_ was crowding o...
21. CHAPTER XX.IT was all wrong and utterly indefensible for Martin Alonzo to take the attitude he did towards the admiral, and Martin Alonzo knew it quite as well as any one.
25. CHAPTER XXIV.AS swiftly as they dared, the two boys ran back in the cave, which proved to be about fifty yards deep; and when they reached the other end they discovered, to their dismay, tha...
11. CHAPTER X.IT would have been hard to guess at all the different emotions that wrought within the heart of the convict boy when Diego’s angry and cruel words checked his generous impulse t...
19. CHAPTER XVIII.IT was so plain to the Indians that Diego’s antics were caused by satisfaction that they were immediately reassured, and were presently gathered around him to discover what it w...
2. 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 cen...
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