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Updated: June 19, 2025
They were, no doubt, pieces of that saussurite jade, or compact feldspar, which we brought home from the Orinoco, and which La Condamine found in abundance at the mouth of the Rio Topayos. The Spaniards saved themselves with difficulty in two small vessels. This post being very near the mouth of the Orinoco, the Mexican Conquistador resolved to attempt an expedition on this great river.
He was not, as was the case with corresponding officials of a later epoch, sent out on an accurately defined mission for which his emoluments were definitely fixed and guaranteed by the Home Government. The conquistador nearly always risked much of his own before he set sail from his native land.
This coat was cut away smartly, like a uniform, towards the tails, and was brought in at the waist with an infinite art. "Whither now, my conquistador?" I said. "To Mass," said he. "To Mass!" I exclaimed; "but you have slept through the greater part of it." "The best part is to come," said Nick, giving a final touch to his neck-band.
With this the Spaniards took possession of the country once again. Gonzalo Jimines de Quesada now became prominent as a conquistador in the territory to the north of Peru, known then as New Granada. For one thing he was scholarly; he had been given an elaborate education, and knew well how to put it to the best purposes. Quesada led an expedition up the Magdalena River.
This we got from the Conquistador; it was all she had in this way; destined for some monastery, I recollect; but disappointment is good for holy fathers; it makes them more earnest in their devotions and keeps their paunches from swelling." He let fall the lid of the chest, which locked itself, and then, after a short trial of the keys, opened the one beside it.
I sank fainting, and waked beneath this rock, this tree, forty-four years ago, and I have never left them since, save once, to obtain seeds from Indians, who knew not that I was a Spanish Conquistador. And may God have mercy on my soul!" The old man ceased; and his young hearers, deeply affected by his tale, sat silent for a few minutes.
That fine old conquistador was now worn out in body and a wreck of his former self. The furious combats with the Araucanians broke out afresh, and continued unabated. A series of disasters shattered the spirit of Villagran, and sent him to his grave.
The three of us hung on the tail-board, and rode to the bottom of the Calle de Conquistador, where we exchanged to the most likely-looking vehicle we could see. "You saw that carriage that just rushed by down towards the harbour?" "Sí, señor," grinned the driver. "Then after it like blue hades, and there's a hundred pesetas for you when we're alongside." "Ah, señores, muchos grac "
It was an ideal place for the Inca Manco. The conquistador, Cieza de Leon, who wrote in 1550 a graphic account of the wars of Peru, says that Manco took with him a "great quantity of treasure, collected from various parts ... and many loads of rich clothing of wool, delicate in texture and very beautiful and showy."
Now I propose to be liberal to the old Conquistador in the matter of his famous causeways, and will therefore admit that they might have been twelve feet in width as broad as the tow-path of the Erie Canal. The Street of Tacuba. The Spaniards and the Indian Women. The Retreat of Cortéz. The Aqueducts of Mexico. The English and American Burying-grounds. The Protestant President. The rival Virgins.
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