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The caciques of Tecoantepec and Quahutemallan inquired at Alvarado concerning certain sea monsters that had been on their coast the year before; meaning the ships of Gil Gonzales de Avila, at which they had been much amazed; and they wondered still more on being informed that Cortes had many such, and much larger than those they had seen.
Recent examples of the thorough manner in which the royal admirals could carry out these bloody instructions had been furnished by the hangings, burnings, and drownings of Fazardo. But the barbarous ferocity of the Dutch on this occasion might have taught a lesson even to the comrades of Alva. The fleet of Avila was entirely destroyed. The hulk of the St.
Turning quickly round to Sandoval, Olid, Alvarado, and Avila who surrounded him, he cried, pointing to the chief, 'There is our mark! Follow and support me! And shouting his war-cry he plunged into the thickest of the press.
You are aware of most of what concerns your beloved master; now for my husband. "He has never had service so arduous as here, for the grand prior, Don Luis de Avila, is nothing to his Majesty except a dear old brother in arms, with whom he is fond of talking about the past. Everything rests on my poor husband.
So, 'having made for himself a knapsack, and got together a few necessaries, he set out as an evangelist, 'with perfect trust in his Beloved, somewhat as S. Teresa started from her home at Avila to evangelize the Moors. Compensation, however, was not denied him.
I have brought this history to a conclusion, in the loyal city of Guatimala, the residence of the royal audience, this 26th of February 1572. Expedition of Hernandez de Cordova, in 1517. I left Castille in the year 1514, along with Pedro Arias de Avila, then appointed to the government of Tierra Firma, and arrived with him at Nombre de Dios.
The curate becoming now incensed, called him a tunante or scoundrel, and added, you have sold your soul to a heretic; we have long been aware of your proceedings, and those of your master. You are the same Lopez, whom he last year rescued from the prison of Villallos, in the province of Avila; I sincerely hope that he will attempt to do the same thing here.
Joseph, Avila, the first house of the Reformed Carmelites, here resumes that account broken off at the end of section 10 of ch. xxxii. Ephes. i. 14: "Pignus haereditatis nostrae." St. John iii. 34: "Non enim ad mensuram dat Deus spiritum." Ch. xxviii. sections 1-5. See ch. xl. section 24; Way of Perfection, ch. vii. section 1; but ch. iv. of the previous editions. See ch. xx. section 14.
When quite a lad he attracted the attention of a wealthy Spanish nobleman, Don Pedro de Avila, who sent him to one of the Spanish universities, probably that of Saragossa, and maintained him there for six years.
Among the colonial governors, who were indebted for their situation to their rank at home, was Don Pedro Arias de Avila, or Pedrarias, as usually called. He was married to a daughter of Dona Beatriz de Bobadilla, the celebrated Marchioness of Moya, best known as the friend of Isabella the Catholic. He was a man of some military experience and considerable energy of character.
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