The Mapmaker's Wife
“Both groups—La Condamine’s and Louis Godin’s—had in fact been coming and going from Cuenca ever since June, for they had used a bell tower in a church in the city’s plaza mayor as a triangulation point. Yet when they returned on August 23, they found the city all stirred up, like a bee’s nest that had been disturbed. Tensions were so high that Senièrgues, who had been living in Cuenca since March, did not dare go out in public without a loaded pistol.Since the expedition had left Quito, Senièrg...ues had rarely been with the others. As they moved south through the mountains, he had regularly gone ahead to the nearest city in order to hang out his shingle as a traveling doctor. In one town, he had removed cataracts from a rich merchant, who had rewarded him with a princely sum. Senièrgues, La Condamine wrote, perhaps with a touch of envy, was making a “fortune” in the New World. Initially, Senièrgues had enjoyed similar success in Cuenca, but then he foolishly became involved in a lover’s quarrel.One of Senièrgues’s patients, Francisco Quesada, had a beautiful daughter, Manuela, who had recently been jilted by her fiancé, Diego de Leon.MoreLess
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