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"The author, John Huighen van Linschoten, left Goa with a fleet of ships, viz. The Santa Maria, Nuestra Sennora de la Concepçao, the San Christopher admiral, the San Thome which was the largest and most richly laden, and the Santa Cruz in which Linschoten sailed.
Who like to broke his back doin' of it? Peth did, that's who. Now he ain't good enough, once ye make fast to a millionaire." "You talk like an old mitten with the thumb brailed up," said Jarrow. "Where was this millionaire feller when ye wanted a man to stand by and raise the Nuestra, I'd like ?" "Belay that!" said Jarrow. "I'm talkin' for yer own good. There's money in this cruise for both of us.
Nuestra Senora de los Dolores, to sail for Chagres on 7th proximo;" remark "rich cargo of bale goods, but no chance of overtaking her."
Drake then followed her, after cutting every cable in the harbor, which soon became a pandemonium of vessels gone adrift. The Panama ship had nothing of great value except her news, which was that the great treasure ship Nuestra Señora de la Concepcion, 'the chiefest glory of the whole South Sea, was on her way to Panama.
There is another fort on the top of a hill, called the Fort of the Mountain; also another high fort, called Nuestra Senhora de Guia. The city of Macao stands on a peninsula, having a strong wall built across the isthmus, with a gate in the middle, through which the Chinese pass out and in at pleasure, but it is death for a Portuguese to pass that way.
In the Salinas Valley, along the "Camino real," or royal highway, from the south to the north, were built Nuestra Señora de la Soledad and San Miguel Arcángel. A day's journey from Carmelo, in the valley of the Pájaro, arose San Juan Bautista. In the charming valley of Santa Ynez, still hidden from the tourist, a day's journey apart, were Santa Ynez and La Purisima Concepcion.
I've offered to take him to his island, time and time again, but he wouldn't hear it, 'cause he knew I was makin' money with the Nuestra that's my schooner, the Nuestra Señora del Rosario me and Peth, my mate, we own it with others. In the wreckin' business it's touch and go. You got to be on the spot, and there ain't been any too many wrecks out this way lately.
Don Vicente says, that here is a proof if any were wanting that the Saint wrote this after her sojourn in Seville; because in Avila and in Castile and Aragon the expression is, "our Lady of Dolors;" while in Andalucia it is our Lady of Anguish "Nuestra Senora de las Angustias." Fra Jerome Gratian. Cant. v. 1. See the last section.
He made his preparations quickly, and on the morrow the Spanish carack lately labelled Nuestra Senora de las Llagas, but with that label carefully effaced from her quarter trimmed her sails and stood out for the open Atlantic, navigated by Captain Jasper Leigh.
Captain Don Rodrigo de Mendoca, pursuing the enemy, who were retiring, ran inside the wall as far as the cavalier of Nuestra Senora, while Vergara ran in the opposite direction along the curtain of the wall to the bastion of Cachiltulo, and went on as far as the mountain. By this time the main body of the army had already assaulted the wall.
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