Note 585 — Chapter VI · THE FINDING OF STRANGE COASTS.
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Footnote 585: While the Spaniards were on this island they encountered a party of tall and powerful women armed with bows and arrows; so that Columbus supposed it must be the Asiatic island of Amazons mentioned by Marco Polo. See Yule's Marco Polo, vol. ii. pp. 338-340.[Back to Main Text]