The courier came in all sweating and flurried, and taking a paper from his bosom, placed it in the governor's hands. Sancho handed it to the majordomo and bade him read the superscription, which ran thus: To Don Sancho Panza, Governor of the Island of Barataria, into his own hands or those of his secretary.
Entró el correo sudando y asustado, y, sacando un pliego del seno, le puso en las manos del gobernador, y Sancho le puso en las del mayordomo, a quien mandó leyese el sobreescrito, que decía así: A don Sancho Panza, gobernador de la ínsula Barataria, en su propia mano o en las de su secretario.