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Hernando Cortez was to have gone along also, but fortunately for him, an inflammation of the knee kept him at home. Ojeda was in such a hurry to get to El Dorado for it was in the territory to the southward of his allotment, that the mysterious city was supposed to be located that he did not stop at Jamaica to take off Esquivel's head a good thing for him, as it subsequently turned out.
After Esquivél's departure on the conquest of Jamaica, Ponce was advanced to the rank of captain, and it was while he was in the Higüey province that he learned from the Boriquén natives, who occasionally visited the coast, that there was gold in the rivers of their as yet unexplored island.
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