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The tidings spread far and wide that Boabdil el Chico was once more in the field and was victorious. The Moors of various places, dazzled by this gleam of success, hastened to throw off their sworn allegiance to the Castilian Crown and to elevate the standard of Boabdil, and the youthful monarch flattered himself that the whole kingdom was on the point of returning to its allegiance.
"But it is Tuesday you arrive at Palomas!" the lady exclaimed. "About then," the purser answered in awkward Castilian. "We may be a little late." "But how much late?" "I cannot tell. Perhaps a day or two." "At dinner the captain said " "Just so. But he was speaking generally without knowing all the arrangements."
This resolution was just taken, when Joshua arrived with a gentleman whom he introduced to Don Diego as the secretary of the Spanish ambassador. After the first compliments, the stranger told the Castilian, that he waited upon him at the desire of his Excellency, who would have come in person, had he not been confined by the gout.
The money-lender readily consented, thanked the prince for the compliment, and, in the usual grandiloquent vein of Castilian courtesy, told Carlos that all he had was at his disposal. "I am glad to learn that," answered the prince. "You may make the loan, then, one hundred thousand ducats." Poor Grimaldo was thunderstruck. He tremblingly protested that it was impossible,—he had not the money.
The Castilian, as they were shoving off, leaped into the boat and begged leave to accompany them. Vasco da Gama was received with unbounded joy by his brother and the officers and crews of the ships.
Monsieur had joined the king early in the morning for a hunting-party; Madame remained in her own apartment, cool and distant to every one; and the queen-mother, after she had said her prayers in Latin, talked of domestic matters with her two friends in pure Castilian. Madame de Motteville, who understood the language perfectly, answered her in French.
Vessels fitted with tanks Native pilots agree to guide them to India Their advanced knowledge of navigation Another column erected A convict lad left with the King Farewells Ships sail Mortality Coast of India seen Anchor off Capocate Dark-skinned naked natives appear Da Gama's politic treatment of natives A Nair comes from the King of Calecut Da Gama fabricates a story to account for his visit The Moorish traders plot to destroy the Portuguese A Castilian comes on board Warns da Gama of the Moors' plot Nicolas Coelho sent on shore with rich presents for the King Tired by delays Coelho received by the King Arrangements made for trading Merchandise landed Damaged spices offered in return Received by the Portuguese The Castilian warns da Gama not to venture on shore without hostages Hostages sent off Vasco da Gama visits the King of Calecut Magnificent presents sent by the King.
We were told that it was one of the royal caprices of a recent tenant of the palace to emulate her chaste prototype of the silver bow by choosing this artistic basin for her ablutions, a sufficient number of civil guards being posted to prevent the approach of Castilian Actaeons. Ford aptly remarks of these extravagant follies: "The yoke of building kings is grievous, and especially when, as St.
'I will tell you a strange thing about Rio, began Dunbar, as he walked up and down the ship that evening. 'If you make your fortune there, you always go back to England and say that by right you are a Castilian noble. 'It would be a very large fortune that would tempt me to live in this beastly climate, said Peter, who was in a grumbling mood.
Months before he had met them everywhere, filling the hotels and monopolizing the cafés, their green hats and open-neck shirts making them recognized immediately. The German women in showy and extravagant gowns, were everywhere kissing each other when meeting, and talking in shrieks. The German tongue, confounded with the Catalan and the Castilian, seemed to have become naturalized.
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