In one form it reads: "Por castilla e por Leon Nueva Mundo hallo Colon."
"Christopher Columbus, Complete"
Filson Young
For it happened that this same Minister of War was in a way a neighbour of ours, as he owned an estancia, which he sometimes visited, about three leagues from us, on that part of the plain to the east of our place which I have described in a former chapter as being covered with a dense growth of the bluish-grey wild artichoke, the cardo de castilla, as it is called in the vernacular.
"Far Away and Long Ago"
W. H. Hudson
As to her face-well, I cannot describe it better than did the eminent artist Gaston de castilla, who was requested to paint her portrait.
"An Artist in Crime"
Rodrigues Ottolengui