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We stopped and talked a little while about the sharks, and then the old man asked Rectus why he wanted to know, that morning, whether he was a Minorcan or not. "I just wanted to see one," said Rectus, as if he had been talking of kangaroos or giraffes. "I've been thinking a good deal about them, and their bold escape from slavery, and their " "Slavery!" sung out the old man. "We were never slaves!
Ashlock, and the other as her sister, a very pretty little Minorcan girl of about fourteen years of age. Mrs. Ashlock herself was probably eighteen or twenty years old, and a very handsome woman. I was hurriedly informed that the murder trial was in progress at St.
Our boatman was one of the Minorcan race, of whom there are many on this coast, descendants of the men of Turnbull's colony of 1767. He was a cousin of our pilot, by name Pecetti a stout, well-built man forty years old, with keen black eyes and curling dark hair and beard, and a great fisherman with line and net.
"Spain and the island of Minorca are two places, ain't they?" I admitted meekly that they were. "You are English, ain't you?" he went on. "You are English, Yankee born, ain't you?" I owned it. "Well, I'm Spanish. That ain't Minorcan. My grandfather was a , and commanded St. Augustine. He couldn't have done that if he had been Minorcan." By this time he was quieting down a bit.
Fitz and she came to stay a month; they had remained twelve. It is often so in Majorca. A number of Spaniards came six hundred years ago nine families; the nine names are there to-day. Fitz had taken D'Erraha on the Minorcan rotas lease, so the old valley, the old house, was his.
I think we tried on every straw hat in town, and we bought a couple in a little house, where two or three young women were making them. Rectus asked me, in a low voice, if I didn't think one of the young women was a Mohican. I hushed him up, for it was none of his business if she was. I had a good deal of trouble in making Rectus say "Minorcan."
And so, as he had asked me about myself, I asked him if he was a Minorcan, and he said 'yes." "And what then?" I asked. "Nothing," said Rectus. "He went on with his clams, and I came home." "You didn't seem to make much out of him, after all," said I. "I don't wonder he thought you were a Spaniard, with that hat. I told you you'd make a show of yourself.
The Val d'Erraha does not belong to me. It was held by my father only on 'rotas' the Minorcan form of lease and it has now been returned to the proprietor." Mrs. Harrington's keen face dropped. She prided herself upon being a woman of business, and as such had always taken a deep interest in the affairs of other people. It is to be presumed that women have a larger mental grasp than men.
Rectus had gone on board, and I was just about to follow him, when our old Minorcan stepped up to me. "Goin' away?" said he. "Yes," said I, "we're off at last." "Other feller goin'?" "Oh, yes," I answered, "we keep together." "Well now, look here," said he, drawing me a little on one side. "What made him take sich stock in us Minorcans?
I know what I've seen for myself. I'd hang 'em all." We debated this matter some time longer, but we could make no impression on the old Minorcan. For some reason or other, probably on account of his sufferings or hardships in the war, he was extremely bitter against all Indians.
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