![]() Several years passed, but Don Luís remained determined to return to his own people and began pressing once again for an opportunity to establish a mission among them. Arriving in Madrid, little more than a large village when Philip II established his court there earlier in the year, they would have found a bustling town packed with courtiers, royal officials and their staffs, high-ranking churchmen, retailers, and merchants, all having flocked to the new capital of Spain. On the journey, he and Don Luís took the road through the beautiful river valley of the Guadalquivir, a checkerboard of wheat fields, vineyards, olive groves, and citrus orchards, to the Moorish city of Córdoba with its great mosque, before turning north into the high, austere tableland of the Mesta, given over to vast sheep walks and scattered rural industries. ![]() He then made his way some three hundred miles to Madrid to report his voyage and present the young Indian, Paquiquineo (named Don Luís de Velasco in honor of the viceroy of Mexico), to the king, Philip II. ![]() Reaching Lagos, Portugal, in late August, Velazquez left his ship and traveled overland to Seville to sort out some business affairs. ![]()
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