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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: strong and warlike in mien, not smoothly young nor after
their notions beautiful, but with an air of sagacity and pride.
A ship boy stood with us. ``That is Catalina,'' he said.
``Ho, Catalina!''
The woman looked at him with disdain and what she
said was, ``Young fool with fool-gods!''
``They came to us for refuge,'' said Sancho. ``We think
they are Amazons. There was an island where they fought
us like men--great bow-women! Don Alonso de Ojeda
first called this one Catalina, so now we all call her Catalina.
At first they liked us, but now that they are safe away from
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