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T HE A C C I D E N T AL I N D I ES THE ACCIDENTAL R O B E R T FINLEY McGILL-QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY PRESS Montreal & Kingston • London • Ithaca © McGill-Queen's University Press 2000 ISBN 0-7735-2006-6 Legal deposit second quarter 2000 Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec Printed in Canada on acid-free paper McGill-Queen's University Press acknowl- edges the financial support of the Govern- ment of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) for its activities. We also acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Finley, Robert Stuart Martin, 1957- The Accidental Indies ISBN 0-7735-2006-6 i. Columbus, Christopher-Fiction. I. Title. ps8561.15523A73 2000 c813'.54 c99-901371-8 pr9199-3f5314a73 2000 This book was typeset by Typo Litho Composition Inc. in 10.5/16 Baskerville. Designed by David Drummond This book is dedicated to Ted Chamberlin This page intentionally left blank A DEPARTURE THE NURSEMAID 'S TALE ... A hill there was, and on the hill a wide extending plain, green with luxuriant grass; but the place was devoid of shade. When here the heaven-descended bard sat down and smote his sounding lyre, shade came to the place. There came the Chaonian oak, the grove of the Heliades, the oak with its deep foliage, the soft lin- den, the beech, the virgin laurel tree, the brittle hazel, the ash, suitable for spear shafts, the smooth silver-fir, the ilex tree bending with acorns, the pleasant plane, the many-coloured maple, river haunting willows, the lotus, lover of pools, the ever- green boxwood, the slender tamarisk, the double-hued myrtle, the viburnum with its dark-blue berries. You also, pliant footed ivy, came, and along with you tendrilled grapes, and the elm trees, draped with vines; the mountain ash, the forest pines, the abrate-tree, loaded with ruddy fruit, the pliant palm, the prize of victory, the bare trunked pine with broad leafy top, pleasing to the mother of the gods, since Attis, dear to Cybele, exchanged for this A DEPARTURE 3
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