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There reigned in this Island of California a queen, ... desirous to achieve great things; ... to see the world and its various races.

— Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo

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Know ye that at the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very close to that part of the Terrestrial Paradise, which was inhabited by black women without a single man among them, and they lived in the manner of Amazons. They were robust of body with strong passionate hearts and great virtue. The island itself is one of the wildest in the world on account of the bold and craggy rocks.

The Adventures of Esplandián Putnam (1917)

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