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GALAPAGOS
beyond the islands

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They were called the enchanted islands,

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because they had the attribute

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to appear and disappear

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in the middle of the sea,

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hundreds of miles from the continent

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and they were or were not

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before the eyes of fatigued sailors

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that could not established 
their actual location.

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It was said that when pirates went 
to the Islands on purpose,

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to hide in their caves 
the fruits of their boardings,

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they could not find them,

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but when they were navigating 
a course to other places,

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the Islands appeared before 
them as if they came out of nowhere.

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For the other sailors,

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hidden in the fog and in the legend,

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the Islands were sometimes referred to as Ninacumbi

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and Huachichumbi,

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and other times they were called 
Easter Island or Polynesian Island,

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always enigmatic and beautiful

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in the middle of 
the stormy sea and its confines.

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It was said that a general,

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called Villamil,

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went on a journey carrying 
on board the end of a rope

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which he dragged across the ocean,

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navigating in a straight line

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till he reached the Islands

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and tied them up and bound them

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firmly to the coast of the continent

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where the other end 
of the rope was buried.

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And since then, they have remained firm,

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although sometimes

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they get back to their enchantment

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to exist

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or not to exist.

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Many men

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had been shipped to the Islands
to serve a prison sentence,

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however the penal colony was dissolved

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because the authorities 
realized that the place

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would be better used 
for tourism then punishment.

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Some convicts escaped

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and hid in the highlands,

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decided to stay in this paradise,

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because once away 
from the environment

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which had pushed them into crime,

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they had been reformed,

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they loved the liberty,

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they valued the price they had paid for it

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and they were able to appreciate 
the beauty and the wideness of the sea.

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In the Islands
they had found themselves,

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they had been purified 
from vicious habits of the civilization,

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and even if they were consumed
by leisure and boredom

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below the blazing sun,

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they were spending time 
sitting on the cliffs,

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watching the horizon,

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waiting for the ship 
that would bring them a letter

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or an old newspaper to see the world,

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from the distance,

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and they were becoming increasingly 
established in their world of sand.

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Little did the hundreds of tourists,

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who were daily arriving and leaving, 
matter to them.

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They were only few native people there,

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but they had a well defined personality:

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they had learned to enjoy looking 
into the soul of the things

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without haste.

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They had discovered the secret 
that things have soul

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and that it can take years to find it.

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They could not write as the poets can,

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but if they could,

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they would have discovered

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new worlds.