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Now Gonsalvez had opened his mouth to say something, but here compressed his lips for a moment before answering. "No: it is still in my power to allot." "In England just now," went on Master d'Arfet "we should call ten shillings an acre good rent for unstocked land. We take it at sixpence per annum rent and twenty years' purchase.
Master d'Arfet waited while Martin translated; then he put out a hand for his staff, found it, turned on his heel and tottered from the room, the interpreter following with a face which had altered nothing during our whole discourse. Master d'Arfet sailed at daybreak, having declined Gonsalvez' offer to show him the grave.
"I may suppose, Count Zarco, that as governor of this island you have power to allot and sell estates upon it on behalf of the King of Portugal?" "Why, yes," answered Gonsalvez; "any new settler in Funchal must make his purchase through me: the northern province of Machico I leave to Tristram Vaz."
Yes, I can understand that a san-benito makes some difference to a man's personal appearance. . . . And old Gonsalvez I saw your Excellency wince and your Excellency's beauty turn pale when he cast up his hands to the sun. . . . Hey? How is it possible how went the words?" Ruth had them well by heart.
The Prince was now eager for captives to be taken who might inform him of the country, and in 1441 Antam Gonsalvez brought several Moors from the southern edge of the desert, who, while useful as informants, advanced a new theme of interest by offering to ransom themselves by delivering on the coast a larger number of non-Mohammedan negroes, whom the Moors held as slaves.
I dare say it is commonly known how I came to the governance of Porto Santo, to hold it and pass it on to my son Bartholomew; how I sailed to it in the year 1420 in company with the two honourable captains John Gonsalvez Zarco and Tristram Vaz; and what the compact was which we made between us, whereby on reaching Porto Santo these two left me behind and passed on to discover the greater island of Madeira.
"I also have heard of you, and of the two captains in whose company you discovered these islands." I nodded again. "Their names," said I, "are John Gonsalvez Zarco and Tristram Vaz. You may visit them, if you please, on the greater island, which they govern between them." He bent his head. "The fame of your discovery, Sir, reached England some years ago.
My old friend insisted that I must stay a week with him, and from the terrace before his house we watched the English pinnace till she rounded the point to eastward and disappeared. "After all," said I, "we treated him hardly." But Gonsalvez said: "A husk of a man! All the blood in him sour! And yet," he mused, "the husk kept him noble after a sort."
At all events, he accepted without suspicion his share in the dishonouring comedy, took my forty dollars, and made out my certificate." Here the Captain glanced at Doctor Gonsalvez, who blinked. Said I: "Even a Protestant must sometimes understand the relief of confession." "Armed with this," he went on, "I made my way to the mouth of the Loire, to St.
"Miss Howe," she said, in the quick clicking syllables of her race, "Sister Margaret wishes you to come immediately to the surgical ward. A case has come in, and Miss Gonsalvez is there, but Sister Margaret will not be bothered with Miss Gonsalvez.
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