216 ISLANIAN WINE. 



^At eight o'clock we arrived at Watcheta^ 

 and were very kindly received by the wor- 

 thy curate, who supplied us with some very 

 tolerable Islanian wine, which had been 

 presented to him on account of a celebra- 

 tion of marriage; and as we partook very 

 freely of it, forgetting that the demijohn 

 before us might be the whole of the stock 

 of the good padre's cellar, our humorous 

 friend Pepe Paris, as each time we filled 

 our glasses, called out, Very well, father, 

 here goes another Misa meaning the va- 

 lue paid by the religious for the saying of 

 an extra mass. The padre bore our ca- 

 rousing and our jokes with great good hu- 

 mour, notwithstanding he observed the 

 demijohn to be manifestly fast decreasing* 



We all slept on sofas in the same room; 

 and it was long before I could get to sleep^ 

 from the constant roar of laughter which 

 our merry friend Paris kept us in, by tell- 



