[68] “Hawk-Eye.”—Tr. [69] Ultima Razón de Reyes: the last argument of kings—force. (Expression attributed to Calderon de la Barca, the great Spanish dramatist.)—Tr. [70] Curiously enough, and by what must have been more than a mere coincidence, this route through Santa Mesa from San Juan del Monte was the one taken by an armed party in their attempt to enter the city at the outbreak of the Katipunan rebellion on the morning of August 30, 1896. (Foreman’s The Philippine Islands, Chap. XXVI.) It was also on the bridge connecting these two places that the first shot in the insurrection against American sovereignty was fired on the night of February 4, 1899.—Tr. [71] Spanish etiquette requires a host to welcome his guest with the conventional phrase: “The house belongs to you.”—Tr. [72] The handwriting on the wall at Belshazzar’s feast, foretelling the destruction of Babylon. Daniel, v, 25–28.—Tr. [73] A town in Ciudad Real province, Spain.—Tr. [74] The italicized words are in English in the original.—Tr. [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: “Español escondido casa Padre Florentino cojera remitirá vivo muerto.” Don Tiburcio understands cojera as referring to himself; there is a play upon the Spanish words cojera, lameness, and cogerá, 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.