Excerpt from Indian Wars of New England, Vol. 2

Western Continent. Even the mind of Columbus was tinged with the glow of a lively romance as he argued with the doctors of Salamanca. As early as the first decade of the sixteenth century St. Brandan and the Isles of the Bimini were realities to Juan Ponce de Leon, the conqueror and governor of Porto Rico, and he eagerly sought out the latter that he might restore his shattered health by bath ing in the waters of its fabled fountain.

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