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In honour of the Marquess de Mendoza, then viceroy of Peru under whose auspices the navigator sailed he bestowed upon them the name which denoted the rank of his patron, and gave to the world on his return a vague and magnificent account of their beauty.
The treaties with the Portuguese crown in regard to the demarcation and the Moluccas must be strictly obeyed. The agreement with Mendoza, viceroy of New Spain, that he shall have a one-third interest in the fleet is confirmed. No excise duty is to be levied "for ten years, and until we order to the contrary." A hospital is provided for by one hundred thousand maravedís taken from fines.
Alone again with Inez Mendoza, Kennedy turned suddenly. "Who is this Senor de Moche?" he asked. "I gather that you must have known him in Peru." "Yes," she agreed. "I knew him in Lima"; then adding, as if by way of confession, "when he was a student at the University."
He stole a look at the face of his companion; and the latter's air of confident and cheerful serenity made him feel worse than ever. Was he being brought out here to be butchered for nothing, he, Don Miguel de Mendoza, who had looked forward to many pleasures in this life? It was too bad.
"How much will you give for your life?" demanded the Mexican abruptly, sitting down on the stool with his back to the table. "As much as any man." The general eyed him narrowly. One sinewy brown hand caressed the butt of a revolver hanging at his hip. "Who paid you to murder Culvera and Mendoza not Farrugia, surely?" Pasquale shot at him, eyes gleaming under shaggy brows.
Others asked him demurely what he thought of these awkward apprentices of Holland and Zeeland, who were good enough at fighting behind dykes and ramparts of cities, but who never ventured to face a Spanish army in the open field. Mendoza sustained himself with equanimity however, and found plenty of answers.
The policeman who had attempted to carry Burke's note to Mendoza had confessed that he was the only traitor in the camp, and that he had tried to work on his comrades without success. Stuart begged Clay to join him as quickly as possible. Clay went up the hill to the Palms, and after consulting with Mr.
At length the sorely disappointed commander presented himself before the viceroy Mendoza, with scarcely a hundred ragged followers who alone remained with him of the splendid cavalcade with which he had set out.
Sangre!" echoed the hall. "Then take mine first!" shouted the brave old Prince, spreading his short cloak out behind him with his hands to cover Mendoza more completely. But still the crowd of splendid young nobles surged up to him, and back a little, out of sheer respect for his station and his old age, and forwards again, dagger in hand, with blazing eyes. "Sangre! Sangre!
The Spanish ambassador, now Don Bernardino de Mendoza, in informing Philip of what was intended, advised him to send out orders for the instant sinking of every English ship, and the execution of every English sailor, that appeared on either side the isthmus in West Indian waters.
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