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The third party was Emiliano Zapata, an Indian bandit, nominally a supporter of Villa but actually favorable to neither of the rivals. Operating near the capital, he plundered Conventionalists and Constitutionalists with equal impartiality, and as a diversion occasionally occupied the city itself.
But the Zapata brothers will think this a good time to make the Americans trouble. I was thinking of Mr. Black and Josie." "I'll bet you were," laughed Billie. "I wouldn't be surprised if they were thinking about you. Hey, Don?" "Well, they might do worse," said Donald. "There are worse fellows than Adrian." "That's right," retorted Adrian good-humoredly. "I can stand it.
After receiving a full account of our voyage, Velasquez sent over his chaplain, Benito Martinez, to make a report of these discoveries to the court of Spain, with letters for Fonseca bishop of Burgos his patron, and to the licentiate Juan Zapata, and the secretary Lope Conchillos, both of whom were employed in conducting the affairs of the West Indies.
They are not a proper article of food. In the swamp known as the Cienega de Zapata are both alligators and crocodiles, some of them of quite imposing dimensions. The insect life of the island is extensive. From personal experience, particularly behind the search-light of an automobile that drew them in swarms, I, should say that the island would be a rich field for the entomologist.
I have written to him about it again and have sent him the copy of the oath, the same as I send to you and likewise to Doctor Angulo and the Licentiate Zapata. I commend myself to the mercy of all, with the information that my departure yonder will take place in a short time. "I would be glad to receive a letter from their Highnesses and to know what they order.
"Followers of the bandit leader, Emilio Zapata." "Which side does he belong to?" asked Adrian. "Huerta or Carranza?" "Neither. He is simply a bandit, and his followers prey upon any whom they find unprotected." "And do you really think they are going to hold up and rob the train from Pachuca?" "Sin duda!" meaning without doubt. "Then we must prevent them," declared Donald emphatically.
We must not confound with this limestone of Guines, sometimes porous, sometimes compact, another formation so recent that it seems to augment in our days. I allude to the calcareous agglomerates, which I saw in the islands of Cayos that border the coast between the Batabano and the bay of Xagua, principally south of the Cienega de Zapata, Cayo Buenito, Cayo Flamenco and Cayo de Piedras.
The two priests appointed for the work, Paschasius Broet and Alphonsus Salmeron, together with Franciscus Zapata who offered to accompany them, reached Scotland early in February 1541, and, having fortified themselves by letters of recommendation from the King of Scotland addressed to O'Neill and others, they landed in Ireland about the beginning of Lent.
The conqueror this time was Don Diego de Vargas Zapata Lujan, whom the viceroy of New Spain had appointed governor in the spring of 1692, with the avowed purpose of having New Mexico reconquered as speedily as possible.
On the south coast, directly opposite Matanzas, lies a vast swamp known as the Cienega de Zapata. It occupies an area of about seventy-five miles in length and about thirty miles in width, almost a dead flat, and practically at sea-level. Here and there are open spaces of water or clusters of trees, but most of it is bog and quagmire and dense mangrove thickets.
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