Лучшие романы Томаса Майна Рида / The Best of Thomas Mayne Reid

Among them you might see commemorated the figure and features of the great Condé[208 - Condé – Louis II de Bourbon, Prince Condé (1621–1686), one of the greatest French generals of the times of King Louis XIV]; of the Campeador[209 - the Campeador (1043–1099) – also called the Sid, the byname of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, Castilian national hero and military leader]; of Ferdinand[210 - Ferdinand – Ferdinand II, king of Aragon and Castile; he united different Spanish kingdoms into one nation and supported Columbus’ expeditions to America] and his energetic queen; of the discoverer of the American world; of its two chief conquistadores – Cortez[211 - Cortez – Hernán Cortés (1485–1547), Spanish conquistador who ruined the Aztec empire and expanded Spanish territories on the American continent] and Pizarro[212 - Pizarro – Francisco Pizarro (1475–1541), Spanish traveller who led many successful expeditions in Central and South America, conquired the Inca empire and founded the city of Lima]; and of her, alike famous for her beauty and devotion, the Mexican Malinché[213 - Malinché – also called Marina (1501–1550), an Indian princess; she was interpreter and mistress to Cortés during his conquest of Mexico].

It was not amidst these sculptured stones that Louise Poindexter practised her feats of archery; though more than once might she have been seen standing before the statue of Malinché, and scanning the voluptuous outline of the Indian maiden’s form; not with any severe thought of scorn, that this dark-skinned daughter of Eve[214 - Eve – in the Bible, the first woman on earth, created from Adam’s rib by God; Adam and Eve lived happily in the Garden of Eden until Eve yielded to the temptation of the evil serpent] had succumbed to such a conqueror as Cortez.

The young creole felt, in her secret heart, that she had no right to throw aВ stone at that statue.

In her excursions with the bow, which were of diurnal occurrence, she strayed not among the statues. Her game was not there to be found; but under the shadow of tall trees that, keeping the curve of the river, formed aВ semicircular grove between it and the garden.