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384 from Italy to the Canary Islands

Traces of buildings near Guanapay Castle dating back to
the time Malocello stayed in Lanzarote.

between Domingo Ramos and Juana Perdomo showing the following
clause, “we declare to be in possession of two fanegas (13,500 square
meters x 2) of agricultural land where it says: the tower adjoining the
old castle, which we had bought from Juana Cabrera, widow of Domingo
Sanchez”. This document confirms the existence atop Guanapay mountain
of a tower and a fortified enclosure, which must have been built by Lan-
zarotto.
As we said, Malocello remained on the island for about twenty years,
until he was driven out by a revolt of the natives; according to Augustín
Pallarés Padilla, at that time Lanzarote was divided into two separate king-
doms by a dry stone wall that crossed the whole width of the island.
The famous Libro del Conocimiento provides evidence of this division
into two different kingdoms as follows, “a general revolt of the islanders
who expelled him (i.e. Lanzarotto) from the island with the help of all the
inhabitants”. The above, according to Pallarés Padilla, and especially the
additional specification “of all the inhabitants”, implies that the natives of