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Words could not express Castro's scorn for these fellows. Ladrones! vermin of the earth, scum of the sea, he called them. His position, of course, was exceptional. A dependent of the Riegos, a familiar of the Casa, he was infinitely removed from a Domingo or a Manuel.
Castro forthwith imposed on them enormous fines which amounted practically to a confiscation of their rights. While the United States and Great Britain were expostulating over this behavior of the despot, France broke off diplomatic relations with Venezuela because of Castro's refusal either to pay or to submit to arbitration certain claims which had originated in previous revolutions.
We had left the sandy deserts behind, and were toiling along painfully, sustained only by Castro's assurance that he knew of a capital camping-ground. "A fine wooded place," said he, "with grass for the horses, and a clear stream of water. You will be tempted to stay there all night, captain." "Three hours," replied Plaza, "not a moment more.
It concealed their very shoulders more completely than water could have done. I trusted it would not come so soon to our heads, emerging, though it seemed to me that already, by merely clambering on Castro's shoulders, I could attain to clear moonlight; see the highlands of the coast, the masts of the English ship. She could not be very far off if only one could tell the direction.
Bold Sir Francis Drake, Cabrillo, Viscaino, Portala, the good Junipero Serra of sainted memory, live again in these recitals. Day by day passes. No news from the Americans at bay in the wilds of the Klamath. By courier the Don has heard of Castro's feeble moves. He toils along with his cavalry, guns, and foot soldiers, whom Fremont defied from behind the rocky slopes of Hawk's Peak.
These two men he accused of deliberately organizing a conspiracy against him; he spoke bluntly of Medina's 'hatred', 'rage', 'trickery', and 'lying'; he was not mealy-mouthed in describing Castro's 'malice', 'deceit', 'calumnies', and 'perjury'. Luis de Leon dealt no less faithfully with some members of his own order who were spiteful or cowardly or both.
To live in the two camps, as it were, was a triumph of Castro's diplomacy, of his saturnine mysteriousness.
Faced by economic bankruptcy and political hostility in the West, Castro turned to the Soviet Union and other socialist countries. They bought his sugar on long term contracts; provided him with manufactures; extended loans. Under these economic and political conditions Castro's Cuba had no choice.
"There is no richer in California, and I have seen Doña Trinidad Iturbi y Moncada's and Doña Modeste Castro's. Let me see thy mantilla once more." Francisca opened a chest nearly as large as her bed, and shook out a long square of superb Spanish lace. It had arrived from the city of Mexico but a few days before.
Castro's valuation of the forces at the disposal of the United States!
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