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WANDERINGS IN 



First remaiiis of it bears testimony of its former strength, and 



Journey. 



may brave the attack of time for centuries. You cannot 



view its ruins, without calling to mind the exploits of those 

 fierce and hardy hunters, long the terror of the western 

 world. While you admire their undaunted courage, you 

 lament that it was often stained with cruelty ; while you 

 extol their scrupulous justice to each other, you will find 

 a want of it towards the rest of mankind. Often pos- 

 sessed of enormous wealth, often in extreme poverty, 

 often triumphant on the ocean, and often forced to fly to 

 the forests ; their life was an ever -changing scene of 

 advance and retreat, of glory and disorder, of luxury 

 and famine. Spain treated them as outlaws and pirates, 

 while other European powers publicly disowned them. 

 They, on the other hand, maintained, that injustice on the 

 part of Spain first forced them to take up arms in self- 

 defence ; and that, whilst they kept inviolable the laws 

 which they had framed for their own common benefit and 

 protection, they had a right to consider as foes, those 

 who treated them as outlaws. Under this impression 

 they drew the sword, and rushed on as though in lawful 

 war, and divided the spoils of victory in the scale of 

 justice. 



Leaves St. After leaving St. Thomas's, a severe tertian ague, every 



Thomas's, 



and is at- ^low and tlicu, kept putting the traveller in mind, that 



tacked by a ' i- i o 



tertian ague, j^jg shattered frame, " starting and shivering in the incon- 



and returns 



to England, staut blast, mcagrc and pale, the ghost of what it was," 



