There were foremen, artificers and clerks, with Don Pepe for the gobernador of the mining population.
In this disturbed time nothing could find the Senor Gobernador with his boots off, as the saying is.
The Vida y elojio del licenciado Vaca de Castro, Gobernador del Peru, was written by Antonio de Herrera, the chronicler of the Indies.
That it was contemplated is ascertained from a Cédula para que Alfonso Doxeda seaGobernador de la Costa de Ququebacóa e Huraba,[680] etc.
Notice had been served on Anda several times that suspensions of military operations had been authorized, but the oidor-gobernador was suspicious, and would not respond to the overtures of the British.
It is important to note that Anda was not given the title of governor and captain-general, but that as oidor he was commissioned visitador de tierras and teniente de gobernador y capitan general.
I should have gone to meet them at Marcapata, but my uncle the gobernador forbade me to do so for fear of displeasing the priest.
The able gobernador of Marcapata had had the sagacious idea of making the local penitentiary out of his farm of Sausipata!
Engraving 13: Ground Plan of the Casa del Gobernador] The ground plan of the Casa del Gobernador is represented in the engraving below.
I have already mentioned the Casa del Gobernador and the Casa de las Tortugas, or House of the Turtles, the latter of which stands on the grand platform of the second terrace of the Casa del Gobernador, at the northwest corner.
On a line with the back of the Casa del Gobernador rises the high and nameless mound represented in the frontispiece, forming one of the grandest and most imposing structures among all the ruins of Uxmal.
The rear elevation of the Casa delGobernador is a solid wall, without any doorways or openings of any kind.
Father Marquez, in his Christian Prince or Magistrate (Gobernador Cristiano), also enlarges on the same question; he expounds his opinion both theoretically and practically.
The Christian Magistrate (El Gobernador Cristiano), according to the Life of Moses, the Ruler of the People of God, by the R.
The arms of the late Gobernador were to have been painted on the doors, but fortunately were not begun when he died, so that the "carroza" seemed in every respect a private one.
These were luxuries the Gobernadorhimself alone possessed.
El Gobernador is a colossal truncated dome, red below and white above.
A mile above El Gobernador the river swings sharply west and doubles on itself.
The gobernador has supreme authority with both bodies, and when important matters are at issue the people are brought together and consulted.
Bundles weighing from forty to seventy-five pounds were placed on the backs of the Indians and the Mexicans; even the guide took a small pack, though it would have been beneath the dignity of the gobernador to take a load upon himself.
The gobernador even raised the question whether it would not be best to let me have the skulls early next morning, together with the other things I was to get; or, if not then, at what other time?
When finally all the people have arranged their stakes the gobernador steps forward and makes a speech, in which he specially exhorts the runners not to throw the ball with their hands; if they do, they certainly will go to hell!
By way of fascinating this young girl, the gobernador had to exert himself to the extent of teaching her how to make girdles and wearing apparel.
Their hands were placed together, the gobernadorsaid a few admonishing words to them, and they rose, man and wife, duly married.
Here is a speech made by the gobernador at the end of one of the feasts I witnessed: Listen to me!
Owing to the presence of the gobernador the Indians received us well.
They refused to be photographed, and even thegobernador ran away from the terrible ordeal.
The gobernadorhere was an original and peculiar character.
At private festivals the shaman is the orator of the occasion, but at communal or tribal festivals the gobernador is expected to, and generally does, perform this part of the proceedings.
The gobernador and four of the judges seated themselves, white man's fashion, on a bench erected for the purpose, where they looked more grand than comfortable.
I made great friends with the gobernador and administrador, who endeavoured to entice me into dancing, but I excused myself by saying that Europeans were unable to dance in the graceful Mexican fashion.
Captain Hancock was much horrified when this greasy-faced gobernador (who keeps a small shop) stated his intention of visiting the Immortalité with six of his friends, and sleeping on board for a night or two.
V-35] In the centre are the fragments of a rude column, picote, or phallus, like those found in connection with the Casa del Gobernador and Casa de Palomas.
It is ten feet and eight inches wide and about fourteen feet high, the top being formed by the usual triangular arch, and the whole being similar to the passages through the Casa del Gobernador before the latter were walled up.
To go from the Casa del Gobernador northward to the buildings at C and D, yet to be described, we pass between two parallel walls at H.
Consequently, before the arrival of any such striking manifestations of official authority as our gendarmes, the gobernador and his friend Mogrovejo proposed to put in the day craftily commandeering the services of a half-dozen sturdy Indians.
Here and in its vicinity the gobernador told us he could procure guides and the half-dozen carriers whose services we should require for the jungle trail where mules could not be used.
The gobernador of the town lived on the main street in a red-tiled house, whose courtyard and colonnade were probably two hundred years old.
Our next stop was at Lucma, the home of Teniente Gobernador Mogrovejo.
The gobernadorsaid that the reason the town was deserted was that most of the people were now attending to their chacras, or little farms, and looking after their herds of sheep and cattle in the neighboring valleys.
As soon as they saw the gobernador approaching, they stopped their work and began to prepare lunch.
The gobernador said that if the Indians of Pampaconas caught sight of any brass buttons coming over the hills they would hide so effectively that it would be impossible to secure any carriers.
It was just as well for us that this was so, for I am sure that before morning the village gossips would have persuaded the gobernador to arrest us.
It was only with great difficulty and by the combined efforts of a good-natured priest, the gobernador or mayor, and the alcaldes that a dozen very reluctant females were finally persuaded to face the camera.
Two seized Tim, the other two dragged the gobernador from his mule, and in a trice had him on the ground at their feet.
He climbed a tree by way of passing the time, and presently, from his leafy bower, he saw the gobernador open the wicket gate, glance cautiously round, and then come swiftly towards the plantation.
I'm afraid the gobernador will have a bad time of it.
The gobernador hurried to his dressing-room, threw off his jacket, and was struggling into his frock coat when he was summoned to attend the Prefect below.
I shall then have the greatest pleasure in reinstating you as gobernador of this town.
Mr. O'Hagan related the circumstances, which the gobernador wrote down with great deliberateness and solemnity.
The attack was so sudden and unexpected that there had not been time even to cry out; but now the gobernador raised his voice in horrified protest, and Tim regained his wits and took stock of the situation.
I will of course do what I can with the few police at my disposal," the gobernador continued.
No gobernador had yet been appointed in place of Senor Fagasta, still under arrest; Captain Pierola, in command of the garrison, was reported killed; and next day the place would be in anarchy.
It was the figure of the gobernador himself: land-owner, chief magistrate, and father of a family.
He had little doubt that the attack had been made by men left behind for that purpose by the Prefect, and guessed that the gobernador had learnt or suspected their design from something they had let fall while quartered in his house.
There could be little doubt that the gobernador had somehow got wind of a plot to rob Mr. O'Hagan on the coming night.
The gobernador was returning from the capital to his own little township, and it was not long before he confided to the boy the object and result of his visit.
Do not breathe my name to any one but your father," said the gobernador anxiously.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gobernador" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
