Part 20

[100] Good little shepherd.

[101] Sir Country-bumpkin.

[102] Little princess.

[103] Child.

[104] Proud little thing.

[105] Small leathern bottle, hung from the saddle in travelling.

[106] Santon is a term used in Spanish for a person professing a life of austerity among the Moors.

[107] The letter F in Spanish is pronounced fé, and fé is the Spanish for faith.

[108] Baptism and Extreme Unction, taken to typify the Christian law.

[109] Now Hayti.

[110] Large jars.

[111] Puren distinguished himself so much by his courage in these wars, that Alvárez de Toledo, a captain in the Spanish army in Araucania, composed a poem on him, entitled, "Puren indomito."

[112] It is possible Don Ercilla here celebrates some feat of his own.

[113] Palio, a banner of bright-coloured silk or cloth, hung across the end of the race-course among Spaniards, and given to the winner. Don Ercilla, all through the story, seems to fill up his incidents from Spanish manners and ideas.

[114] The Adriatic.

[115] A dollar.