Et quand ilz eurent faict entendre aux habitans la fidelite etperseverance de ceste femme, elle fut receue a grand honneur de toutes lesDames, qui voluntiers luy baillerent leurs filles pour aprendre a lire eta escripre. Et, a cest honneste mestier-la, gaigna le surplus de sa vie,n'aiant autre desir que d'exhorter un chaucun a l'amour et confiance deNostre Seigneur, se proposant pour exemple la grande misericorde dont ilavoit use envers elle.XX. BIMINIParkman says expressly that "Ponce de Leon found the Island of Bimini,"but it is generally mentioned as having been imaginary, and is not clearlyidentified among the three thousand islands and rocks of the Bahamas.Peter Martyr placed the Fountain of Youth in Florida, which he may haveeasily supposed to be an island. Some of the features of my descriptionare taken from the strange voyage of Cabeza da Vaca, which may be read inBuckingham Smith's translation of his narrative (Washington, D.C., 1851),or in a more condensed form in Henry Kingsley's "Tales of Old Travel," orin my own "Book of American Explorers" (N.Y., Longmans, 1894).End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Tales of the Enchanted Islands of theAtlantic, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ENCHANTED ISLANDS OF ATLANTIC ***This file should be named 7teia10.
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