United States or Belize ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Little did the modern discoverers of America dream, when they called this country "Canada," from the exclamation of one of the exploring party, "Aca nada," "there is nothing here," as the story goes, that Canada would far outstrip those lands of gold and silver, in which their imaginations revelled, in that real wealth of which gold and silver are but the portable representatives.
As for Francisco, such mind as he had left to him was taken up with fervent prayer, so it is possible that he did not suffer so much as might have been expected. Five minutes or more passed thus; then a voice spoke from the mist below, saying: "Are those who are named Aca and Jal on high, O priest?" "They are on high," answered Nam.
When you proclaimed these strangers to be Aca and Jal, we accepted them, perhaps too easily and after too short a search. Now you denounce them as liars, but we will not disclaim them whom we have once received till we are sure that there is no room for error. It may chance, Nam, that it would please you well to cast aside those gods who have threatened you with death and do not love you."
"I have had no such adventurous career," he began. "I have not shaken Canadian dust from my feet, and have not made any great success. I have simply plodded; and am in no danger of becoming rich, although I suppose I spend as little as any man. After you were expel after you left the aca " "Don't mutilate the good old English language, Stilly. You were right in the first place.
Aca is come again and Jal is come again, and ye have given them back their rule after many generations, and in their hands lies the life of every one of you.
"Lopez, I say!" continued he, calling louder. "Aca, aca!" "Lopez, these I perceive are gentlemen of rank, and we must send them out of the world a little more gracefully, do you hear?" "Yes, Captain," answered the other, with stoical composure. "Over the cliffs, Lopez. Facilis descensus Averni but you don't understand Latin, Lopez. Over the cliffs, do you hear? You understand that?"
Then a mighty roar of sound went up from the gathered thousands, a roar that shaped itself into the words: "We believe and we accept." "It is well," said Nam when the tumult had died away. "Hearken, ye high gods! O Aca! and O Jal! Bend down your ears and deign to hearken to your priest and servant, speaking in the name of your children, the People of the Mist. Be ye kings to reign over us!
I do not like that soldier he appears mean and cunning and I have heard is a bad fellow, though favoured by the Comandante. God forfend he should have gotten this paper! I shall lose no more time. I shall call Vicenza, and question her." She stepped forward to the parapet that overlooked the patio. "Vicenza! Vicenza!" "Aqui, Senorita," answered a voice from the interior of the house. "Ven aca!
Hitherto I have been spared for the same reason that you and Bald-pate yonder have been spared because we are the body-servants of the false gods, and are reserved to perish with them when the lie is discovered; or perhaps to live awhile, set in cages in the market-place, to be mocked by the passers-by and to serve as a warning to any whose monkey hearts should dare to plot sacrilege against the divinity of Aca and Jal.
"Tell me of Jal, your lord." "Jal is as Jal was, merry and somewhat drunken. He speaks our language very ill, yet when he was last in liquor he sang a song which told of deeds that he, and he whom they name the Deliverer, had wrought together down in the south, rescuing the goddess Aca from some who had taken her captive. At least, so I understood that song."
Word Of The Day