" Spain," says he, " iaspreading her wings, augmenting her em-
pire, and extending her name and glory to the antipodes.* • • •
Of eighteen vesseb dispatched by my sovereigns with the admiral
Columbus, in his second voyage to the western hemisphere^ twelve

* Opof. Epift. p. Mar^ Angleni, Epiat 135. t Idem, EpiBt 141.
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have returned, and have brought goesampine cotton, huge trees of
dye-wood, and many other articles held with us as predous^ the
natural productions of that hitherto hidden world; and beside all
other things, no small quantity of gold. O wonderful, Pomponius !
Upon the surface of that earth are found rude masses of native gold,
of a weight that one is afraid to mention. Some weigh two him-
dred and fifty ounces, and they hope to discover others of a much
larger size, from what the naked natives intimate, when they extol
their gold to our people. Nor are the Lestrigonians, or Polyphemi,
who feed on human flesh, any longer doubtful. Attend — Iwit be-
ware I lestthey rise in honor before thee! When he proceeded from
the Fortunate islands, now termed the Canaries, to Hispaniola, the
island on which he first set foot, turning his prow a little toward
the south, he arrived at innimierable islands of savage men, whom
they call cannibals, or Caribbees ; and these, though naked, are
courageous warriors. They fight skilfully with bows and clubs,.
