Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson >> Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic
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XX. BIMINI
Parkman says expressly that "Ponce de Léon found the Island of Bimini,"
but it is generally mentioned as having been imaginary, and is not clearly
identified among the three thousand islands and rocks of the Bahamas.
Peter Martyr placed the Fountain of Youth in Florida, which he may have
easily supposed to be an island. Some of the features of my description
are taken from the strange voyage of Cabeza da Vaca, which may be read in
Buckingham Smith's translation of his narrative (Washington, D.C., 1851),
or in a more condensed form in Henry Kingsley's "Tales of Old Travel," or
in my own "Book of American Explorers" (N.Y., Longmans, 1894).
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