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* NUNEATON. 687 NTJNIVAK. of Saint Mary embodying the remains of a twelfth-century priory of nuns, two endowed schools, a free library, and a literary institute. It owns water-works and electric lighting plants. It has noted ribbon manufactures, worsted, cot- ton, and elastic weaving industries, iron works, and tanneries. Coal is mined in the vicinity. During the nineties Nuneaton and Chilvcrs Coton amalgamated under one municipal coun- cil. Population, in ISStl, 15,300; in 1901, 25,000. NUNEZ, niSo'nyas, Rafael (1825-04). A South American statesman. President of Colom- bia. He was born in Cartagena ; entered polities as a member of Congress in 1851; was twice (1855-57 and 18fil-62) Secretary of the Treasury ; and was a pnnninent journalist and editor, being director for two y<uirs of El Coiitiiieiilal, a Spanish newspaper published in New York City. Nunez was consul at Havre and Liverpool for some time. He was President from 1880 to 1882; was reelected in 1883; and, after the Revolution in 1885 and the reform of the Constitution, was inaugurated for a term of six years in 1886, and again in 1892. He died in office. NUNEZ CABEQA DE VACA, noo'nyath ka-Rfi'tha da vii'ka, Alvar (C.1400-c.l5ti0). A Spanish adventurer in North and South Amer- ica. He was born in .Jevcz de la Frontera and was living in Seville when Narvaez was raising his forces for tile eolonizaticm of Florida. He received an appointment as royal treasurer and high sheriff to the expedition. He shared in all the misfortunes of the under- taking, and was chiefly instrumental in extri- cating the party from the interior and getting it back to the Gulf coast. In the final wreck of the boats of the Narvaez expedition Nunez was cast ashore with a few others on one of the isl- ands outside Matagorda Bay, November 6, 1528. The Indians took charge of the survivors, and for some time the Spaniards lived on the islands and adjoining mainland in a state of semi-servitude. Alvar Nunez secured freedom, and for several years wandered about the country in what is now Texas and Arkansas, trading among the different tribes and acting as physician or medi- cine man. Eventually, with three others, the only survivors of the Narvaez expedition, EstSvan Dorantes, Alonso del Castillo, and a Moorish negro named Estevanico, he started to find the route back to civilization. Making their way from tribe to tribe, across Texas to the Rio Grande, then through Sonora and so on west- ward, they finally eame upon a i>arty of Spanish soldiers in Sinaloa, not far from the Gulf of California. They were sent on to the City of Mexico, where the Viceroy welcomed them on July 24, 1536. Cabeza de Vaca went back to Spain, where he arrived in August, 1537. He claimed some compensation for his years of suf- fering, asking for the Governorship of Florida. Instead he was granted authority to conquer the territory of the Paraguay Indians along the Rio de la Plata. He expended all his means in equip- ping an expedition, which sailed in 1540. He soon became involved in difliculties with his sub- ordinates, who eventually put him under ar- rest and sent him back to Spain. The Council for the Indies after six years sentenced him to banishment in Africa. This sentence was prob- ably not enforced, however, for he is said to have settled in Seville, where he was living some twenty years later. Cabeza de Vaca's own ac- count of his various adventures, first published in 1542 and 1555, has been translated by Buck- ingham Smith (New York, 1871) and by Domin- guez in the Hakluyt Society volume for 1891. NUiIeZ de AE.CE, da iir'tlui, Gaspar ( 1834- ino.'i ). . Spanisli playwright and lyric poet, born at Valladolid. Befiue he was twenty he was asso- ciated with the editorial staff of the Madrid jour- nal El Obsercador. He soon gained considerable repute by his contributions to the periodical La Iberia, as correspondent for which he went through the African campaign (1859-GO). He entered the Cortes in 1865, and after the troubles of 1868 he became Civil (Jovernor of Barcelona. In 1882 he became Minister of Colonial Affairs un- der Sagasta. Nuiiez de Arce is of decided merit, both as a dramatist and as a lyric poet, and his verse enjoys widespread popularity in Spanish America as well as in Spain. In 1875 he pub- lished a collection of lyrics under the title of Oritos del combate, a title indicative of the pas- sion and patriotic energy of most of them. Since it appeared, he has produced other poems of some length, that have likewise won popular favor: the Idilio ; the iJiejrfa, written, like the Idilio, in 1878 ; the Ultima lamentacion de Lord Byron (1878) ; the Vertigo ( 1879, one of the most famed of his works and one which has provoked much imita- tion, creating a school of his followers in the legend ), a graphic description of the crime and remorse of a modern Cain; the Vision de Fray Martin (1880), a psychological study of Luther; La pesca (1884), a charming idyll; and Maruja. As a dramatist, he has written both alone and in collaboration with Antonio Hurtado. His indi- vidual works are the comedies, Deudan de la honra, Quien debe paga, and Justicia providen- cial, in all of which he cultivates the drama of manners, already made successful by Tamayo y Bans and Ayala, and the Haz de lena. a tragedy both historical and p.sychological in its tenden- cies. This last piece deals with the story of Philip 11. and his son, Don Carlos. The editions of his lyrics are legion. That of Gritos del corn- bate (iladrid, 1891) contains also his prose Dis- ciirso sobre la poesia. His chief plays are to be found in the Obras dramiitica,^ escogidas (Madrid, 1879). Consult also the study of him by Menen- dez y Pelayo, in volume ii. of Novo y Colson's Atttores dramdticos contemponineofi. reprinted in the critic's Efstudios de critirii lilrrarin (1884). NUNEZ DE VILLAVICENCIO, vil'la-ve- than'-the-o, Pedro (1635-1700). A Spanish his- torical, portrait, and genre painter, born in Seville. He first studied iinder Murillo in Se- ville, and then, as he was a knight of the Order of Saint .John, went to Malta, where he was the pupil of ilattco Prcti, called II Calabrese. L'pon his return to Seville, he again studied with Murillo and continued to live with him. He assisted his master in founding the .cademy of Seville, and was his testamentary executor. His subjects were similar to those ^lurillo chose, and the works of the two men sometimes are confused. His "Children Playing with Dice" (in the Prado Museum, Madrid) shows • considerable native talent. NUNIVAK, noo'ni-vSk. An island in Bering Sea, situated in latitude 60° N., 50 miles from the mainland of Alaska, and 140 miles southwest