United States or Gambia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Other commanders followed, and Fernando Perez da Andrade, sailing east, passed through the Straits of Malacca, until he reached Canton, then the most celebrated sea-port on the southern coast of China. Thence he sent an ambassador to the Emperor of China, to settle trade and commerce.
After referring to the death of Magellan, as an event which removed a cause of difference between the crowns of Portugal and Castile, growing out of the famous expedition of that navigator, Andrade thus speaks of the state of affairs between the crowns of France and Portugal.
"A man whom I believe to be an acquaintance of his has to-day sent an urgent telegram to Charles Rabel, Rue de Lalande, 163, in Montauban, in France, making an appointment to meet him at the Hôtel Luxembourg at Nîmes next Monday at noon." "Who is his friend?" he asked eagerly. "I regret, Señor Andrade, that I am not in a position to answer that question.
Those who signed the paper were the past provincials, Javier Riquelme, former rector of San José, and Tomas de Andrade, rector of the great college and of their university; Fathers Alejo Lopez and Jaime Vestart, at present masters in theology; Ysidro Clarete and Pedro Lope.
I longed again to be frank with the affable Señor Andrade, yet I saw that if I were I might negative all chance of solving the problem which concerned the health and life of the girl whom I had grown to love so fervently. Upon a sudden impulse I remarked with affected carelessness: "I hear that our English financier, Mr. De Gex, is at the Ritz." "Yes," he replied.
The bulk of the army having sided with the movement, President Andrade quitted Caracas, where General Castro set up a provisional government with which our minister and the representatives of other powers entered into diplomatic relations on the 20th of November, 1899.
It remained with us to pretend ignorance. Therefore we resolved to still watch and wait. A few hours later I told Señor Andrade, the Chief of Police, of the professor's discovery that the points of the pins had been infected with orosin, the newly discovered drug which in small doses produced loss of memory and insanity, and in larger doses sudden death.
The three men laughed heartily. "An apology to Despujol!" cried the Chief of Police. "How very amusing!" "I consider that I was very lucky," I said. "He seems to be a most desperate character." "He is," answered Señor Andrade. "We have had inquiries for him from all over Europe.
"He is not Salavera, but Rodriquez Despujol, one of the most dangerous criminals in Spain!" "Despujol!" cried Señor Andrade. "And he was in Madrid last night!" Then he added: "Ah! if we had but known." "True. But why was he in the English gentleman's room?" queried the detective.
The recommendation of the censor was disregarded, and General Terrero, fearful that Rizal might be molested by some of the many persons who would feel themselves aggrieved by his plain picturing of undesirable classes in the Philippines, gave him for a bodyguard a young Spanish lieutenant, José Taviel de Andrade.
Word Of The Day