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About this time there arrived in our town one Vicente de la Roca, the son of a poor peasant of the same town, the said Vicente having returned from service as a soldier in Italy and divers other parts.
On the 3rd. of December, they discovered certain shoals, having only six or seven fathoms water. On the fifteenth of the same month, they had sight of the islands which were discovered by Diego de Roca, Gomez de Sequieira, and Alvaro de Saavedra, called Los Reyes or islands of the kings, because discovered on Twelfth day.
Beautee-full! the Señorita Roca beautee-full? Mother of God! If he wished, he could post himself on the Pasada that very afternoon any afternoon and see her driving with her jolly good father or her proud mother, or it might be with Señor Lorenzo de Guavera. 'And, added Ferrero, 'you will meet Juan there also if he ees returned from the ranch.
She saved our lives, helped recover Chiquita, and she helped rescue Manuel, Sapoya, and Henry from the Navajos." "Yes; but for her I might have lost my brother at La Roca Grande," remarked Henry. "That was probably her greatest feat. Nice little doggie good little Vicky are you really to go to San Francisco and the East with us?"
Not being able to effect this purpose, they continued their voyage to the Tortugas islands, and thence to the Caraccas, where they captured three barks, one laden with hides, another with European commodities, and the third with earthenware and brandy. With these prizes they sailed to the island of Roca, where they shared them, and then resolved to separate, though only consisting of sixty men.
Her reputation for goodness was unchanged by the lapse of time, her goodness stands approved to-day, and two dramatists, Tirso de Molina and Roca de Togores, have depicted her as a heroine in their plays. Under the reign of Alfonso XI., Castile was rent by two factions, one in support of the king's wife, Maria of Portugal, and the other friendly to his beautiful mistress, Leonora de Guzman.
They would long have ceased to be so had they been under the dominion of any other government than that to which they belong. Nothing can engage men to circumscribe their industry within the narrow limits of a small island when a neighbouring continent offers them greater advantages. We perceived at sunset the two points of the Roca de afuera, rising like towers in the midst of the ocean.
"We shall be in Portugal, perhaps fifty miles from any large place." "Cape Roca isn't twenty miles from Lisbon," replied Perth. "We can walk that distance in a day." "What are you going to do in Lisbon? Not one of us can speak a word of Portuguese." "We can do just the same as we should have done in Brest, and raise money on our letters of credit, and get to Paris.
As the power of an explosive depends principally on the amount of gas which results from its sudden combustion, it was evident that the addition of pure or nearly pure carbon, in a condition to be readily combined with the other elements, ought to increase materially the force of nitro-glycerine, and M. Roca experimented accordingly with an admixture of sugar, as a highly carbonized body immediately available, and found that three parts of this, mixed with seven parts of nitro-glycerine, detonated with a force from thirty to thirty-five per cent. greater than that of pure nitro-glycerine.
If I speak thus to you, it is because I know that you, señor, are one to understand and to trust. We shall be glad to see you. You go with Ferrero now? Ver-ry good. Juan stood up and with his cane he saluted profoundly. 'Good-by, sir. Ferrero, a Dios. He went as he came, with a rush. "Stirred up by Juan, Cogan thought of calling that very night on Luis Roca and his family.
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