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Updated: June 15, 2025
Ovando would not have riot and disturbance if twenty Admirals hung in the offing! He kept us waiting. He would be cool and distant and impregnable behind the royal word. Juan Lepe saw plainly that that lavish and magnanimous person aboard the Consolacion would not meet here his twin. The Adelantado must still, I thought, sail the Margarita.
"Have you really gone out or are you there, you he-goat?" asked a voice from time to time, changing the epithets but raising the tone. Finally, she commenced to take away the furniture from her barricade. He heard the noise and smiled. "Orderly! Has the señor gone out?" cried Doña Consolacion. The orderly at a signal from the alferez, replied: "Yes, señora, he has gone out!"
The girls, on the other hand, were afraid of her, and would hurry by at a quick pace, never daring to raise their eyes or draw a breath. But say what you may, Doña Consolación had one great virtue; she was never known to look into a mirror. These were the leading people of San Diego. Toward the west of San Diego, surrounded by rice fields, lies a village of the dead.
Those songs brought back memories of the old times. Doña Consolacion also heard it in her sorrow, and became interested in the person who was singing. "Tell her to come upstairs at once!" she ordered, after some seconds of meditation. Something like a smile passed over her dry lips.
Doña Consolacion listened at first with a sneer, which disappeared little by little from her lips. She became attentive, then serious, and even somewhat thoughtful. The voice, the sentiment in the lines, and the song itself affected her that dry and withered heart was perhaps thirsting for rain.
WE left one of our ships in the Bethlehem and we lost another upon this disastrous coast ere we got clear for Jamaica. We were sea specters. We had saved our men from the San Sebastian as from the Margarita. Now all were upon the Consolacion and the Juana. Fifty fewer were we than when we had sailed from Cadiz, yet the two ships crept over-full. And they were like creatures overcome with eld.
"If you are Christians, if you have hearts," he begged, in a low voice, "let me down rapidly and make my head strike against the wall that I may die. God would reward such a good deed.... Perhaps some day you will be in the same straits as I am now." The alferez returned and with watch in hand witnessed the descent. "Slowly, slowly!" cried Doña Consolacion following the poor fellow with her eyes.
The Admiral considered abandoning her, taking the Adelantado upon the Consolacion and dividing his crew among the three ships. But the Adelantado's pride and obstinacy and seamanship were against that. "I'll sail her, because San Domingo thinks I can!" Stormy days and nights, and the Admiral watching. "The Margarita! Ho, look out! Do you see the Margarita?"
The captain Ruy Lopez it was met us as a wonder, San Domingo having held that the hurricane must have sunk us, the sea swallowed us up. He anchored, took his boat and came to the Admiral upon the Consolacion. "Senor, I am glad to see you living!" "Yes, I live, senor. Are you well in San Domingo?" "Well in body, but sick at heart because of the fleet." "Because of the fleet?"
To make trouble for the curate, the soldier, at the instigation of his wife, would prohibit any one from walking abroad after nine o'clock at night. Doña Consolacion would then claim that she had seen the curate, disguised in a piña camisa and salakot, walking about late. Fray Salvi would take his revenge in a holy manner.
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