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wanted (but did not get) thirty shillings, which 

 was only the manner of his tribe. There is no 

 island in which begging is carried to greater per- 



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fection than in Madeira. When you have paid 

 your carro-man half again his proper fare, he asks 

 for " something for the boy/' and if you gave 

 that also, he would no doubt ask next for some- 

 thing for the bullocks. Indeed, I believe it to 



