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Rh with arms and ammunitions to the patriots, among others one in the steamer " Virginius." which was captured by the Spaniards. Among those of the crew that were exeunt i'd at Santiago de Cuba was a son of Quesada. After the close of the Cuban insurrection he settled in Costa Rica, where he was employed by the government.

QUESADA, Vicente Gaspar, Argentine author, b. in Buenos Ayres, 5 April, 1830. He studied law in the university .it' his native city, in 1850 was graduated as LL. I)., and at once took an active part in politics, contributing, by his articles in tin: press of Montevideo and Buenos Ayres, to the fall of the tyrant Rosas in 1852. He founded in 1860 the "Revista del Parana," and in 1864 the "Revista de Buenos Ayres," and since 1871 he has been director of the public library of the latter city. He has published "Impresiones de viaje, recuerdos de las provincias de Cordoba, Santiago y Tucuman" (Buenos Ayres, 1852); "La provincia tie Cordoba" (1860), which has been translated into German : and a series of articles, "Los Recuerdos," " El Crepusculo de la tarde," " Lejos del hogar," and "El Arpa," published in his " Revista," and in a volume (1864).

QUESNEL, Dieudonné-Gabriel Louis, (kay-nel), South American botanist, b. near Cayenne in 1749; d. in Cayenne in 1801. He received his education in France, served for several years in the army, and fought at Tobago in 1780. After the conclusion of peace he returned, with the brevet of major, to his estate in Guiana, and, at the suggestion of Malouet (q. v.), established a model farm, and adopted new methods of cultivation. For several years he carried on his agricultural experiments, but, unwise management proving detrimental to his fortune, he abandoned agriculture and became a traveller. He explored French Guiana and the northern provinces of Brazil, and formed an important herbarium, which is now deposited in the museum of Cayenne. Among his works are &ldquo;Herbier expliqué des plantes de la Guiane&rdquo; (2 vols., Cayenne, 1792); &ldquo;Description de la flore Guianaise&rdquo; (1795); and &ldquo;Journal de voyage à travers les Pampas&rdquo; (1796)..

QUESNEL, Joseph, author, b. in St. Malo, France, 15 Nov., 1749; d. in Montreal, Canada, 3 July, 1809. After finishing his studies, he shipped on board a man-of-war, visited Pondichery and Madagascar, travelled in Africa, and after three years returned to France. After resting a few months, he set out for French Guiana, and afterward visited several islands of the Antilles and explored part of Brazil. He then travelled in the valley of the Mississippi, and finally decided on settling in Canada. He married in Montreal, and resided in Boucherville. In 1788 he wrote &ldquo;Colas et Colinette,&rdquo; a vaudeville, which was played for the first time in Montreal. He followed with &ldquo;Lucas et Cecile,&rdquo; an operetta, &ldquo;L'Anglomanie,&rdquo; a comedy in verse, and &ldquo;Républicans Français,&rdquo; in prose, which was afterward published in Paris. Besides several songs, he composed sacred music for the parish church of Montreal, and some motets, and wrote a short treatise on the dramatic art (1805). The writings of Quesnel are in the first volume of the &ldquo;Répertoire national.&rdquo;

QUETZALCOHUATL (ket-zal-co-wat'-tle), king of the Toltecs, lived about the sixth century. According to Brasseur de Bourbourg (q. v.), in his &ldquo;Histoire des nations civilisées du Mexique,&rdquo; a personage with long hair reaching to the waist, and a pale visage, who gave his name as Cecalt-Quetzalcohuatl, landed one morning at Panuco. He pretended to come from an eastern country of which

nobody had heard before, and was accompanied by a troop of architects, painters, and scientists. Proceeding immediately to Tollantzingo, he built a magnificent temple and an underground palace, and was elected king of Tollan, the nations of the Anahuac valley receiving him as a messenger of God. His reign lasted twenty years, and proved beneficial to the people, several nations asking to be admitted in the confederacy, till Huemac, king of Aculhuacan, allied with the dissatisfied priests, overthrew the monarchy. Quetzalcohuatl retired to the valley of Huitzilapan, where he founded the city of Cholula, which later became the seat of a powerful republic. Some years afterward Cholula was also taken by Huemac, and Brasseur de Bourbourg asserts that Quetzalcohuatl died during his flight from Cholula. But other historians say that, after retiring from Tollantzingo, Quetzalcohuatl reached the coast of Campeche and founded Xicalanco on an island of the lagoon de Terminos, whence, after some years, he retired again to his fabulous country, while his followers emigrated to Central America and founded the new city of Tollan near Ococingo in Chiapas.

QUICK, Charles William, clergyman, b. in New York city, 4 Oct., 1822; d. in Philadelphia. 10 Oct., 1894. He was graduated at Yale and at Alexandria seminary. He was ordained to the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church, and was rector of parishes in New York and Pennsylvania till 1876, when he joined the ministry of the Reformed Episcopal church. He edited the "Episcopal Recorder" in 1866-'81 ; the "Christian Woman" in 1885-'93 ; the works of Ezekiel Hopkins (Philadelphia, 1863); "Righteousness by Faith," by Charles P. Mcllvaine (1864); and the works of John Owen (16 vols., 1865).

QUICKENBORNE (or VAN QUICKENBORNE, CHARLES), Charles van, clergyman, b. in Peteghem, Belgium, 21 Jan., 1788; d. at the mission of St. Francis, in the Portage des Sioux, Mo., 17 Aug., 1857. He studied in the College of Ghent, was ordained priest, and held various ecclesiastical places in Belgium. He became a Jesuit in 1815, and at once asked to be sent on the American mission. He arrived in the United States in 1817, and in 1819 was appointed superior of the Jesuit novitiate of White Marsh, Md. While attending to the duties of this office he built two fine churches, one in Annapolis and one at White Marsh, and had, at the same time, a vast district under his jurisdiction. After some years he was ordered to transfer his mission to Missouri. He accordingly set out with twelve companions, and, after travelling 1,600 miles, arrived at Florissant and began the novitiate of St. Stanislaus. To form this establishment he had no other materials than the timber that he carried from the woods and the rocks he raised from the bed of the river. He was his own architect, mechanic, and laborer, and, aided by his novices, finally constructed the buildings. In 1828 he set about building a university at St. Louis, and also erected at St. Charles a church, a convent of the Sacred Heart, and a parochial residence. His great desire from the first had been to evangelize the Indians. He therefore made several excursions among the Osages and lowas, and made numerous conversions. He erected a house and chapel among the Kickapoos, and this tribe became the centre of his missionary labors in 1836. He had visited all the neighboring tribes and formed plans for their conversion, when he was recalled to Missouri. After remaining some time in St. Louis, he was sent to the parish of St. Francis, where he at once began the erection of a church.