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The face it presents to the town the top of it garnished with two rows of brackets, perforated with holes to receive the staves of the vela- rium bears the traces of more than one tier of orna- mental arches; though how these flat arches were applied, or incrusted, upon the wall, I do not profess to explain.
Some texts read, Vilwam nagaviodhara i.e., 'As an elephant lifts up a vela fruit. Veri means both a kettle-drum and a trumpet. The latter however conveys a better meaning here. Literally, force of his thighs. What Bhima says is this. The Gandharvas, your husbands, are always obedient to thee! If they have been able to do thee a service, they have only repaid a debt.
Upon sight of the English the poor people again fled incontinently to the woods, and Nuberry and his men destroyed their houses a second time. On 5th April 1656 Goodson, with ten of his best ships, set sail again and steered eastward along the coast of Hispaniola as far as Alta Vela, hoping to meet with some Spanish ships reported in that region.
The Bugis sailors, while hoisting the main sail, cry out, "Vela a vela, vela, vela, vela!" repeated in an everlasting chorus.
At this time it seemed certain that Maltravers would fall in love with Evelyn; but it rested on more doubtful probabilities whether Evelyn would fall in love with him. CONTRAHE vela, Et te littoribus cymba propinqua vehat.* SENECA. * "Furl your sails, and let the next boat carry you to the shore." "HAS not Miss Cameron a beautiful countenance?" said Mr.
Another Viceroy, named Blasco Nuñez Vela, succeeded De Castro. He had orders to release the Peruvians from servitude, which meant that the conquerors and the thousands who had come after, would have been compelled to work.
In 1567 he accompanied Hawkins on his third expedition. With six ships, one of which was lent by the Queen herself, they sailed from Plymouth in October, picked up about 450 slaves on the Guinea coast, sighted Dominica in the West Indies in March, and coasted along the mainland of South America past Margarita and Cape de la Vela, carrying on a "tolerable good trade."
This spot commands a view of the islet of Cubagua, the lofty hills of Margareta, the ruins of the castle of Santiago, the Cerro de la Vela, and the calcareous chain of the Brigantine, which bounds the horizon towards the south.
He afterwards discovered the haven of Zamba, the Coradas, Carthagena, the islands of S. Bernard de Baru, the Islas de Arenas, Isla Fuerta, and the Point of Caribana, at the end of the Gulf of Uraba, where he had sight of the Farrallones, close by the river of Darien. From Cape de la Vela to this last place, which is in lat. 9° 40' N. is 200 leagues.
With this view, therefore, it was his intention to place himself and his treasure at the disposal of Vela Nunnez, whom he wished to consult on this subject with some adherents of the late viceroy who dwelt in Lima, that these persons might likewise be induced to join in the enterprize. De la Torre, therefore, requested the father guardian to converse on the subject with Vela Nunnez.
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