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with whom the Numidians, the Getuli, and the Garamanti 

 are confounded, and who extend themselves from the east- 

 ern extremity of Atlas by Harutsch and Fezzan, as far as 

 the oasis of Siwah and Angela,* 



About eight o'clock I returned to Candelaria, which 

 takes its name from the miraculous appearance of Nucstra 

 Scnora de la Candelaria at this place, in 1392. She was 

 picked up on the beach and placed in the chapel, and was 

 believed, by the natives, to be the real Virgin Mary. They 

 looked upon her with profound veneration, and loaded her 

 shrine with many valuable offerings. She remained in 

 that situation until the 8th of November, 1826, when 

 she, with the chapel, was swept away by an awful hurri- 

 cane and deluge, and has not yet performed the miracle of 

 returning, though many less feasible ones are attributed to 

 her by her devotees. She consisted of a small, black im- 

 age bedecked with jewels and other trappings, and in fact 

 was nothing more than the figure-head of a vessel, which 

 washed up in that place. 



About nine o'clock I left Candelaria, and pursued my 

 way homeward over the mountain, nearly in the same path 

 through which I passed yesterday. 



Port Orotava, Friday, ) 

 September 27, 1833. \ 



* Vide Adelung und Vater, Mitliridates, t. iii. p. 60. 



