. An archer with Columbus;. e was no Columbus eagerly listened to thehalf-understood tales of the natives. Theyseemed to tell of a great king who dwelt athis magniflcent capital in the interior of theisland. Surely this must be some mightyAsiatic potentate. Columbus resolved to THE NEW AVORLD. 151 send envoys to communicate with the mon-arch. Two men were chosen for this service,one of whom could speak Hebrew, Chaldaic,and Arabic. With Pablo and a CubanIndian for interpre-ters, they set out ontheir adventurousjourney, and disap-peared in the denseforest. The next day Felixaccompanie
. An archer with Columbus;. e was no Columbus eagerly listened to thehalf-understood tales of the natives. Theyseemed to tell of a great king who dwelt athis magniflcent capital in the interior of theisland. Surely this must be some mightyAsiatic potentate. Columbus resolved to THE NEW AVORLD. 151 send envoys to communicate with the mon-arch. Two men were chosen for this service,one of whom could speak Hebrew, Chaldaic,and Arabic. With Pablo and a CubanIndian for interpre-ters, they set out ontheir adventurousjourney, and disap-peared in the denseforest. The next day Felixaccompanied Colum-bus on an expeditionup the large river inthe mouth of which the fleet was anchored. When the partylanded to explore the adjacent country,they were attracted by a group of Indianhuts in a beautiful grove not far away,and went to visit them. They were built of palm leaves, and werequite clean. A goodly quantity of cottonand cotton yarn was stored within, andseveral hammocks of cotton net were sus-pended between 152 AN ARCHER WITH COLUMBUS. Near the huts were small fields of cottonand Indian corn, and between the hills ofcorn were low, dark-green plants, eachplant having a number of queer, roundishroots or tubers. Felix put a few of theseroots in his pocket as curiosities. He tastedone of them, but at once concluded that itwas not yet ripe. After hanging a few beads on the huts,
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