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With the calmness of a shopkeeper, before the artist had a chance to speak of the charge, he broached the matter. It would be two thousand reales; he had already told Cotoner. The low tariff; the one he set for people he liked. "A man must live, Renovales. I have a son."
His aim was to glorify the Incas and their times, and much of his work was in the strain of tales heard in childhood from his mother. The “Commentarios Reales” were written just as their author’s training had prepared him to write them.
Every man in turn was called by name, and answered in a loud voice, "I praise God!;" then saying how much he had earned in the day, for the Administrador to write down. "Juan Fernandez!" "Alabo a Dios, tres reales y medio:" "I praise God, one and ninepence." "José Valdes!" "I praise God, eighteen pence, and sixpence for the boy;" and so on, through a couple of hundred names.
At last Coello came to him and after greeting him, first formally, then cordially, and enquiring about his health and experiences, he shrugged his shoulders, saying: "My wife does not wish you to see Isabella again before the trial. You must show what you can do, of course; but I..... you look well and apparently have collected reales.
They are signed G. Stuart, R. A., New York, September 8, 1794, and bear inscriptions in Spanish which, to complete the record, are here given in full: DON JOSEF DE JAUDENES Y NEBOT COMISARIO ORDENADOR DE LOS REALES EXERCITOS Y MINISTRO EMBIADO DE SU MAGESTAD CATHOLICA CERCA DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. NACIÓ EN LA CIUDAD DE VALENCIA REYNO DE ESPAÑA EL 25 DE MARZO DE 1764.
MARQUESA. No, no, mejor será que veamos ese corte. VECINA. Aquí está ... ¡cosa superior! y por un pedazo de pan ... ochocientos reales ... ni un ochavo menos. DOÑA MATILDE. ¡Qué bonito! MARQUESA. ¡Precioso! DOÑA MATILDE. Y qué punto tan igual. MARQUESA. ¿Y la cenefa?... también es de mucho gusto. DOÑA MATILDE. Y de las más anchas ... sobresaldrá mucho sobre un viso caña ... ¿no te parece?
The monkey climbed palms in Barranquilla and threw down cocoanuts to the man. The man sawed them in two and made dippers, which he sold for two /reales/ each and bought rum. The monkey drank the milk of the nuts. Through each being satisfied with his own share of the graft, they lived like brothers.
Theoretically a peso was a hundred cents, as a peseta was twenty cents, but there was no cent with which to make change. You accepted the dacold at its value of eighty to a peso, or you transacted no business. The Filipinos also had a way of figuring a medio-peso as cuatro reales, thus giving the real a value of twelve and a half cents, though there was no coin called a real.
Immediately after the rainy season this affords a firm, good road for a time, but eventually it becomes ploughed into impassable ruts by the wheels of the carts, unless trampled hard by the feet of passing flocks. Government undertakes the cost and the super-intendence of the caminos reales, and does it well.
The real is a quarter of a peseta, but the escudo of ten reales has been suppressed. The Spanish dollar, the same as ours, though not on a gold standard, is the usual medium of trade here."
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