Excerpt from The Guanches of Tenerife: The Holy Image of Our Lady of Candelaria, and the Spanish Conquest and Settlement<br><br>Bethencourt and his gallant adventurers, though they never landed on the island, must Often have gazed with admiration at the glorious peak Of Tenerife Shooting up high above the clouds, and at the serrated ridges Of Anaga. But the conquest was left for another people, and delayed for well nigh another century. The brave Guanches had a respite.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.