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They walked with head erect to the quemada or place of execution. Dominican monks, by whose fanatic zeal the Holy Office gained a hold on every Spaniard, often walked among the doomed, stripped of their former vestments. Once a noble Florentine appealed to Philip as he was led by the royal gallery. "Is it thus that you allow your innocent subjects to be persecuted?"

VECINA. Lo siento, porque mi hermana lava muy bien ... como que lava a todas las colegialas de Loreto ... y si no fuera por cierta desgracia que tuvo ... ya se lo contaré a usted otro día ... porque ahora estoy de prisa ... agur ... ¿pues no me huele a salchicha quemada? DON EDUARDO. ¡Qué taravilla! DOÑA MATILDE. Y ¡qué mujer tan ordinaria! DON EDUARDO. ¡Así hablas de tu amiga!

But the fury of the storm gradually subsided, and the little vessel held on her way along the coast, till, coming abreast of a bold point of land named by Pizarro Punts Quemada, he gave orders to anchor.

Barreiro, finding himself unexpectedly cut off from his centre of supplies, fell back upon Venta Quemada, where he was soon followed by his foe, anxious to deal a decisive blow before the royal forces could concentrate. Boyacá, the site now occupied by the hostile armies, was a wooded and mountainous country and one well suited to Bolivar’s characteristic tactics.

The name Torre Quemada, or Burnt Tower, indicates the sensation that is felt in descending towards La Guayra. A suffocating heat is reflected from the walls of rock, and especially from the barren plains on which the traveller looks down.