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There we were to leave the railway and drive into the valleys to Loyola, where in an old castle the hidalgo vizca�no, Don I�igo de Loyola, was born.

The lawmakers of Vizcaya were duly chosen by their fellow-nobles, for every Basque held the rank of hidalgo, or "son of somebody."

Then he hurried to the Alc�zar, sought a hearing from the sovereign, and said that he had found the murderer of the hidalgo.

Time has spared the famous race of Cordovan horses, and many a poor hidalgo rides into the town on a steed which if sold in London might redeem his shattered fortunes.

The proud Spanish hidalgos worked with very unwilling hearts, and never forgave Columbus for submitting them to what they considered a great degradation.