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The fortress of Usson, which had been a state prison under Louis XI, was demolished by Louis XIII, in 1634. Brantôme, Dames Illustres, Marguerite de France, Reine de Navarre, Dis. v. p. 275. L'Etoile, Journ. de Henri IV, vol. i. p. 233. Diane d'Andouins, Vicomtesse de Louvigni, dame de l'Escun, was the only daughter of Paul, Vicomte de Louvigni, Seigneur de l'Escun, and of Marguerite de Cauna.
Columbus, as I have been told, had forbidden them to do more than examine and reconnoitre the country. The news spread that the king of the mountain country, where all these rivers rise, was called the Cacique Caunaboa, that is to say, the Lord of the Golden House; for in their language boa is the word for a house, cauna for gold, and cacique for king, as I have above written.
"'I cauna say ower muckle for my taste, my leddy, but ae thing I will say, I've a most damnable smell! "I hear that never since the auld walls stood was there ever the like o' the laughing that followed; the puir duke himsel' was carried away, and nearly had a fit, and a' the grand lords and leddies a'most died of it. But see here, the earle has nae left a drap o' whiskey in the flask."
'I have a letter from 'So I have heard. 'Would you like to hear it? 'No. 'Can you not abide him? 'I cauna thole him. 'Is he a black? 'He is all that. Well, Vailima was the one spot on earth I had any great craving to visit, but I think she always knew I would never leave her. Sometime, she said, she should like me to go, but not until she was laid away.
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