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The Cura was unusually civil towards us because we were Irish, and as Irish were presumably of clean lineage that is to say, free from kinship with Jews or infidels. As reputed descendants of settlers from Bilbao, we were entitled to a full share in all the privileges of the province of Biscay. This was as well to know.
He owed his earlier promotions to Cæsar's influence, but in his consulship of B.C. 57 had taken the side of the aristocracy in promoting the recall of Cicero, though he had gone against their sentiment by supporting Pompey's appointment to the cura annonæ.
'Wife, he said, 'I have bethought me of this: Post equitem sedet He faltered 'sedet Behind the rider sitteth But for the life of me I know not whether it be atra cura or no. And, as he left Paris gates behind him and speeded towards the black hills, bending low to face the cold wind of night, for the life of him he knew not whether black care sat behind him or no.
And still less do I forget the high quality of the poets whom Plato calls the interpreters of the Gods, while Ovid says of them "'Est deus in nobis; agitante calescimus illo. And again "'At sacri vates et divum cura vocamur.
We spent seven very agreeable days at the Hacienda da Cura, in a small habitation surrounded by thickets. We lived after the manner of the rich in this country; we bathed twice, slept three times, and made three meals in the twenty-four hours.
Among the plants which grow on the rocky islands of the lake of Valencia, many have been believed to be peculiar to those spots, because till now they have not been discovered elsewhere. Such are the papaw-trees of the lake; and the tomato* of the island of Cura. When cut open it is found quite filled with seeds, and without those hollow places which occur constantly in the common papaw.
Then they returned home, laid in a large stock of brandy, and having made ready a gaily decked waggon and horses, they drove in procession with bells ringing, as they do when they are fetching home a bride, to the sacred grove at Cura. There they ate and drank merrily all night, and next morning they cut a square piece of turf in the grove and took it home with them.
In the city of Manila, on the fifth day of February in the year one thousand six hundred and five, his most reverend Lordship, Don Fray Miguel de Venavides, archbishop of this said city, caused to appear before him the canon Pablo Ruiz de Talavera, cura for the natives of this city, from whom he took and received oath in verbis sacerdotis, placing his hand upon his breast.
It seemed to me worth while to make some remarks about this question, with a view of showing that the theory as to the relation between food and population, though partly true, is not wholly so; and that in the region of which we have been speaking it can be clearly shown to fail. After spending a long morning with the Indians and their cura, we took quite an affectionate leave of them.
"Let us once get Charles V. at Madrid, and we will make short work of the Señor Herrera and of all who resemble him." And the cura continued his march, silent as before. He had proceeded but a short half mile when the officer commanding the cavalry rode up beside him. "We have no forage, general," said he "not a blade of straw, or a grain in our corn-sacks.
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