300 A PROCESSION. 



of the squadron. To this redoubtable army 

 succeeded a party of giants two fathoms high, 

 dressed in the very extremity of fashion, the 

 upper part of their bodies being represented in 

 pasteboard, accompanied by ladies elegantly 

 attired, and of nearly equal dimensions, and by 

 some very small dwarfs : the business of this 

 whole group was to entertain the populace with 

 pantomimic gestures, and comic dances. Next 

 came all sorts of animals, lions, bears, oxen, &c. 

 of a size sufficiently gigantic to conceal a man 

 in each leg. Then, with grave and dignified 

 deportment, marched Don Quixote and his 

 faithful Sancho. To the question, what the 

 honourable Knight of the Rueful Countenance 

 was doing there, somebody replied that he repre 

 sented the inhabitants of Manilla, who were just 

 then mistaking a windmill for a giant. The hero 

 of Cervantes was followed by a body of military, 

 seemingly marching under his command ; and 

 after them came two hundred young girls from 

 the different provinces of the Philippine Islands, 

 richly and tastefully attired in their various 

 local costumes. Fifty of these young graces 

 drew the triumphal car, richly gilt, and hung 



