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The Indians of Guachoya came every day with fish in such numbers, that the town was full of them.... The Governor felt in himself that the hour approached wherein he was to leave this present life, and called for the king's officers, captains, and principal persons, to whom he made a speech. Baltasar de Gallegos answered in the name of all the rest.
Gallegos sent back word to inform Soto of the nature of the country he had explored, and that there were plenty of provisions in the town to which he had penetrated. Being anxious to take Harrihiagua prisoner, his lieutenant Vasco Porcallo went out with a party on that service, though Soto advised him to send some other person.
The description of peasant life in Madrid would be incomplete if we left unmentioned the daily siesta in the sun of the Gallegos and lower-class working-men. On the benches in the Prado, on the pavement, in the full blaze of the sun, these men will stretch themselves and sleep for an hour or two after their midday meal.
He had been gone half-an-hour when his fellow, Juan Gallegos, flung down his cards in the dusk the more readily perhaps because he held a weak hand and pricked up his ears. "Horses!" he whispered, and after a pause nodded confidently. "Three horses!" We picked up our muskets and crept down towards the road. Halfway down we met Alonso ascending with the news.
'Madre de Dios, he said, 'comes now the soul of Ramon Gallegos. "And so he left us William Shaw, George W. Kent and Berry Davis. "I was the leader: it was for me to speak. "'He was a brave man, I said 'he knew when to die, and how. It is foolish to go mad from thirst and fall by Apache bullets, or be skinned alive it is in bad taste. Let us join Ramon Gallegos.
At the very most northwestern tip of Spain is the region of Galicia, which everybody thought was the end of the world before Columbus showed them it wasn't. People in Galicia call themselves "Gallegos," and they live in a country of rocky seacoasts, where the ocean pokes long fingers called "rias" back into green hills and fog rolls in almost every day.
In days not so very long past the streets were filled with picturesque costumes of the provinces, with gaily decorated mules and donkeys carrying immense loads of hay or straw, or huge nets filled with melons or pumpkins, almost hiding everything but the head and the feet of the animal; or a smart-looking "Jacket" man from the country districts would go whistling by, Asturians, Murcians, Gallegos, gypsies, toreros in their brilliant traje Andaluz always to be recognised by their tiny pigtails of hair, and by their splendidly lithe and graceful carriage all these jostling, singing, chaffing each other, while the jingling bells on innumerable horses, mules, donkeys, rang through the sunlit air, and made the Puerta de Sol and the streets branching from it a constant scene of life and gaiety.
The Englishman, as Commander Gallegos said, was a valued servant of the Republic, and had for some years served in its Navy as a surgeon on board EL ALMIRANTE COCHRANE, the flag-ship. He had left Valparaiso in the whale-ship COMBOY with the intention of remaining three months on the island. At the end of that time a war vessel was to call and convey him back to Chili.
Voy. ch. viii. The same has been remarked in the Rio Gallegos; and at St. "Of the cleverness of the elephant I have spoken elsewhere, and likewise of the manner of hunting.
And when the Leonese and the Gallegos knew that their Lord King Don Alfonso was come, they were full joyful, and they came to Zamora and received him for their Lord and King.
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