In the same year 1518[30], Diego Velasquez, governor of the island of Cuba, dispatched his nephew, John de Grisalva, on the first of May, with four ships and two hundred soldiers, to discover Jucutan.

On the arrival of Olid at Cuba, he entered into a league with Diego Velasquez against Cortes: and, instead of prosecuting the orders he had received, he set sail for Puerto de Cavallos, in lat.

Ford is certainly a most astonishing fellow; he quite flabbergasts mehandbooks, review's, and I hear that he has just been writing a 'Life of Velasquez' for the 'Penny Cyclopaedia'!" OULTON HALL, LOWESTOFT, March 13, 1843.

Her brocade gown of a deep shade of red, with a border of dark sable on cuffs and collar, suggested a portrait by Velasquez.

And not one Velasquez"evidently he was talking partly to get his bearings after his shock at seeing Jack"no, not one Velasquez in the Metropolitan!

I go home without seeing a Velasquez.

"And not a Velasquez in the Metropolitan!" mused the Doge, bustling along the aisle hurriedly.

"But there is a Velasquez, one of the greatest of Velasquezes, just a few steps from here!

" "A Velasquez a few steps from here!" cried the Doge.

"A very great Velasquez!"

He tried to retrieve his exclamation in an effort at the forensic: "The amour propre of any American is hurt by the thought that he must go to a private gallery to see a Velasquez in the greatest city of the land!"

If it is only a matter of looking at a picture without any social responsibilities, and that picture a Velasquez, why, we must take the time, mustn't we, Mary?" "Yes," Mary assented.

"At what period of Velasquez's career?" he asked, vacantly.

" "That ought to be a good Velasquez," said the Doge.

"Now for your Velasquez!"

"Now for your Velasquez!" Before the portrait of the first John Wingfield, Jasper Ewold's head and shoulders recovered their sturdiness of outline and his features lighted with the veritable touch of the brush of genius itself.

It's immortality just to be painted by Velasquez; the only immortality many a famous man of the time will ever know!" He looked away from the picture to Jack's face keenly and back at the picture and back at Jack and back at the picture once more.

Now I shall not go back to the desert without having seen a Velasquez.

"Thank you for showing me the Velasquez," said the Doge.

Now Jack swept back to the villa garden in Florence, the day of the Doge's call; and from there to the Doge's glance of recognition that first night in Little Rivers; then to the scene in front of the bookstore, when the Doge hesitated about going to see the Velasquez.

He was thinking of the bare spot on the wall in the drawing-room in place of the Velasquez.

" "I am bringing you a Velasquez!"

They were alone with the frank, daring features from Velasquez's brush and with the "I give!

One day he saw a picture by Velasquez, and he understood how horrid were the red things he used to send to the academy.

I have never heard that the heavy black in the pictures of Velasquez was due to a negro ancestry.