Crossword-Solution: ESTAN 5 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

All at once she began to sing in a barely articulate voice,— Quando las pintadas aves, Mudas estan, y la tierra—[16] She broke off abruptly, and began to caress Djali.

Gomara, speaking of the natives seen by Columbus at the mouth of the river of Cumana, says: "Las donzellas eran amorosas, desnudas y blancas (las de la casa); los Indios que van al campo estan negros del sol." (The young women are engaging in their manners: they wear no clothing, and those who live in the houses ARE WHITE.

This variety of palm-trees was remarked by the first Conquistadores.* (* Pedro de Cieca de Leon, a native of Seville, who travelled in 1531, at the age of thirteen years, in the countries I have described, observes that Las tierras comarcanas del Rio Cenu y del Golfo de Uraba estan llena de unos palmares muy grandes y espessos, que son unos arboles gruessos, y llevan unas ramas como palma de datiles.

These friends all accosted us with eager questions:-- "Addonde estan las muchachas?" (Where are the girls?) "Addonde esta Maud?" "Addonde esta Lucia?" We were obliged to say that they were not with us, and the blank, disappointed faces showed that we, the elders, counted for little in the absence of "metal more attractive." After a short stay at the capital, we reëmbarked for Samana, where we passed some weeks of delightful quiet in a pretty cottage on the outskirts of the little town.

Some cattle were seen grazing near the shore, at a Beef _Estançian_ or Farm, three miles distant from where the ships lay.