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  • The most annoying messages were from Guacanagari, full of half-veiled threats about any attempt by an obscure mountain village like Ankuash daring to interfere with the great cacique's plans.

    Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus Card, Orson Scott 1996

  • As always, Diko denied her supposed prophetic gifts, though it had been her intimate knowledge of the future that kept her from living as a slave or the cacique's fifth wife.

    Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus Card, Orson Scott 1996

  • Col-n took the hat from his head and, instead of putting it in the cacique's hand, placed it on Guacanagari's head himself.

    Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus Card, Orson Scott 1996

  • None of the others shared their cacique's attitude toward the black shaman-woman from the old mountain village of Ankuash.

    Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus Card, Orson Scott 1996

  • Local justice of the peace courts are simply farcical, and most of the cacique's violations of right keep him clear at least of the courts of first instance, where the judiciary, Filipino or American, is reliable.

    A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Mary Helen Fee

  • Here he received an embassy from the chief of the district, Guacanagari, inviting him to visit the cacique's residence, further along the coast, and bringing him as presents a wampum belt artistically worked and a wooden mask with eyes, tongue and nose of gold.

    Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich

  • We sailed with a small, small wind for the cacique's village, out from harbor of St. Thomas, around a headland and along a low, bright green shore.

    1492, 1922

  • Now many of our adventurers and mariners caught fire from that cacique's wide gestures.

    1492, 1922

  • Governor was informed by some Spaniards, some Indian friends and some allied natives of the country that among some of the cacique's chief men, it was being talked of that they should join with the warriors of

    Relación de la conquista del Perú. English Pedro Sancho 1918

  • The mob in the street, talking and laughing, stands waiting for the general's permission to ransack the cacique's house.

    The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution Mariano Azuela 1912

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