“There was one other distraction on the island of Gomera: Doña Beatriz de Bobadilla. Or, as she was known in the Canaries, “Bobadilla the huntress, a woman of rare distinction.”
― Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504
― Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504
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