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In the first stanza he mentions that he had slain eleven men, but using a poet's license he states the fact in a roundabout way, saying that he slew six men, and then five more, making eleven in all: Seis muertes e hecho y cinco son once. which may be paraphrased thus: Six men had I sent to hades or heaven, Then added five more to make them eleven. The stanza ended, Marcos resumed his comments.
Miss Bishop, newly risen, had come out to take the air on the quarter-deck with his lordship in attendance as you would expect of so gallant a gentleman when she beheld the big red ship that had once been the Cinco Llagas out of Cadiz. The vessel was bearing down upon them, her mountains of snowy canvas bellying forward, the long pennon with the cross of St.
But... then...." Wildly his eyes looked about him. They scanned the cabin once again, scrutinizing each familiar object. "Am I mad?" he asked at last. "Surely this ship is the Cinco Llagas?" "The Cinco Llagas it is." "Then...." The Spaniard broke off. His glance grew still more troubled. "Valga me Dios!" he cried out, like a man in anguish.
He went off briskly in the direction of the stockade, where his fellow-slaves awaited him in deep anxiety and some hope. There were, when the purple gloom of the tropical night descended upon the Caribbean, not more than ten men on guard aboard the Cinco Llagas, so confident and with good reason were the Spaniards of the complete subjection of the islanders.
"It is what has happened. Come and look." "I have seen," said Blood. "He died before I left the Cinco Llagas. He was hanging dead in his bonds when I spoke to him before leaving." "What are you saying?" cried Esteban. Blood looked at him gravely. Yet for all his gravity he seemed almost to smile, though without mirth. "If you had known that, eh?" he asked at last.
In their ideas of things, the Gringos took away enough of their land they don't want the culture to go out would go mariachi, bull fights, Juarez Day with children in Indian feathers, Cinco de Mayo celebrations, and traditional Mexican ballads. In would come George Bush Jr. signs and the American navy ships. It is a choice like the people in Paris, France."
A score of them elected to remain, and amongst these were Jeremy Pitt, Ogle, and Dyke, whose outlawry, like Blood's, had come to an end with the downfall of King James. They were saving old Wolverstone, who had been left behind at Cartagena the only survivors of that band of rebels-convict who had left Barbados over three years ago in the Cinco Llagas.
If the Spaniards understood nothing of all this, the forlorn islanders ashore understood still less, until to help their wits they saw the flag of Spain come down from the mainmast of the Cinco Llagas, and the flag of England soar to its empty place.
Row me in your little boat out to that steamer, and I'll give ye five dollars sinker pacers sinker pacers, says I, reducin' the offer to the language and denomination of the tropic dialects. "'Cinco pesos, repeats the little man. 'Five dollee, you give? "'Twas not such a bad little man.
Ogeron, most accommodating of governors, advanced him money for the proper equipment of his ship the Cinco Llagas, which he renamed the Arabella. This after some little hesitation, fearful of thus setting his heart upon his sleeve. But his Barbados friends accounted it merely an expression of the ever-ready irony in which their leader dealt.
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