[75] A Spanish hero, whose chief exploit was the capture of Gibraltar from the Moors in 1308.—­Tr.

[76] Emilio Castelar (1832-1899), generally regarded as the greatest of Spanish orators.—­Tr.

[77] In the original the message reads:  “Espanol escondido casa Padre Florentino cojera remitira vivo muerto.”  Don Tiburcio understands cojera as referring to himself; there is a play upon the Spanish words cojera, lameness, and cogera, a form of the verb coger, to seize or capture—­j and g in these two words having the same sound, that of the English h.—­Tr.