The Guanches of Tenerife - The Holy Image of Our Lady of Candelaria, and the Spanish Conquest and Settlement #225448

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.