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Excerpt from The Romance of the Fountain
Nearly a generation had elapsed since the adventurous spirits of Spain had begun their wild chase of the setting sun. They might indeed almost be said to have caught up the great round orb in Hispaniola. And yet but a very small part of those phantom islands Which for centuries had loomed in the golden light of the western horizon only to vanish in mist and night, had so far been added to the Spanish possessions. No one yet suspected the existence of the treasurie's of gold that were 'about to be opened up by Cortes and Pizarro. But still a vague wistful wonder was turning all men's to the West. It was the time.
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