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��nent cliff on the southern shore of the niany disasters as to render the group

island * the initials of his name and the exceedingly formidable in the eyes of

year, to which, in conformity with the "the most experienced navigators. It

pratical zeal of the times, he super- ^^as even invested in their imagination

added a cross, to protect his acquisi- with superstitious terrors, being consid-

tion from the encroachments of roving ered as unapproachable by man, and

heretics and the devil, for the stormy C'^en up in full dominion to the spirits of

seas and dangerous reefs gave rise to so darkness. The Spaniards therefore

called them "Los Diabolos," the Devil's


 * This inscription is still in existence, the engraving Islands

shown herewith is a good representation of it, as it ap- " /- • j j

jwars at the present time. These islands wcic first mtroduceci to

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