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The captain and pilot, who had also arrived, told him that the ship carried one hundred and twenty-two thousand pesos of gold, and that the rest of her cargo consisted of silks, satins, damasks, with musk and other merchandise, with provisions of all sorts in abundance. They were detained on board while the galleon their prize was carried into Puerto Seguro.
DON EDUARDO. No será indigestión a buen seguro; pero, mujer, ¿qué has hecho en todo este tiempo? ¿Cómo tienes todavía así el cuarto? Vaya, que no es mala porquería. DOÑA MATILDE. Yo ... si ... ay, Eduardo, ¿cómo te puedes enfadar tanto conmigo? DON EDUARDO. No, Matilde mía, yo no me enfado contigo ... ¿cómo había yo de enfadarme contigo?
"Yes, indeed," responded Hardy honestly, "and you have a wonderful air here, very sweet and pure." "Seguro!" affirmed the old man, "seguro que sí! But alas," he added sadly, "one cannot live on air alone. Ah, que malo, how bad these sheep are!" He sighed, and regarded his guest sadly with eyes that were bloodshot from long searching of the hills for cattle.
By this time we had begun to understand just to understand in infinitely small proportion what the old resident Americans meant when they joked about the Philippines as a mañana country. When we inquired when a boat would be in, the reply was "Seguro mañana" "To-morrow for sure." When would it leave? "Seguro mañana."
Considering the great length of the voyage he had to perform, Cabral did not deem it proper to spend any more time in examining this new country, but departed from Puerto Seguro on the 2d of May, steering his course for the Cape of Good Hope, which was estimated to be 1200 leagues distant, and having a great and fearful gulf to cross, rendered dangerous by the great winds which prevail in these seas during most part of the year.
He landed there, in the Bay of Porto Seguro, on May 1, 1500, and took formal possession of the land for the Crown of Portugal, naming it Vera Cruz, or the Land of the True Cross.
On the title-page stood a characteristic motto from his favourite Horace: ab ipso ferro. Possibly at this moment Luis de Leon looked forward to a period of learned leisure: O ya seguro puerto de mi tan luengo error! o deseado para reparo cierto del grave mal pasado, reposo dulce, alegre, reposado!
Again a quick eager hand was laid on his arm, again his companion whispered in his ear. Rios nodded curtly and turned to Ortega. "Have you the money in the house?" he demanded. "Seguro," said the gambling house owner. "I expected Señor Kendric." "You do me proud," laughed Jim. "Let's see the color of it in American money."
His account was that the natives were well proportioned, and of a swarthy colour, armed with bows and arrows, and all naked. A storm arising at night, the fleet weighed anchor and stood along; the coast, till they found a good harbour, in which they all came to anchor, naming it Puerto Seguro, or the Safe Port, as it was quite secure in all weathers.
It would be Ignacio who would ring the bells for the wedding when Roderico Nortone married himself with the daughter of the banker. "He is what you call a gunman, isn't he?" asked the girl, interested. "I heard two of the men on the stage talking of him. They called him Roddy Norton; he is the one, isn't he?" Seguro; sure, he was the one. A gunman? Ignacio shrugged.
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