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are better built, the habitable part being all on the ground floor, and 
clean and neat, the kitchen utensils, etc. neatly arranged, and the 
people more intelligent, better clothed, though in a manner grotesque 
enough, with broad hats, large sack-cloth cloaks, sashes, and stockings 
with immense clocks. ‘The women are of better complexion and make 
than the Portuguese, and infinitely more cleanly, I think love may be 
a Spanish passion but it cannot be a Portuguese one. 
I saw here the position Lord Wellington occupied on the 25th of 
last September, before he retired to Alfayates, and was sufficiently 
convinced of its insecurity. 
12th November.—I was much amused to-day by the herds of black 
pigs that belong to the Spanish villages, the people take great care of 
them, and generally kill them when about full grown, making hog 
puddings; they are, however, so stingy that they will not indulge 
themselves with the flesh, but sell it and hoard the money. The vil- 
lagers consider the acorns, of which they take great care, upon which 
the pigs fatten, their best property, they grow upon an oak, which 
however does not resemble the Hnglish tree. . aS A aca Cae 
18th November.—Bought a greyhound from a Spaniard, and A. 
Macdonald! bought another. I sent Sutton this morning to Malharda 
de Surda, the money not being yet ready. oe POR Ramen PR ioe ee 
14th November.—I rode over with Captain Ross to Malharda de 
Surda, had all my papers settled, and was to send for the money the 
next day. There I heard a report that Bull’s troop had defeated the 
French in the south. In our ride to-day Ciudad Rodrigo was pointed 
out to me, it extends a great way, and at the distance from which I saw 
it appears to have many grand edifices. It commands the valley of 
ChOwAu Cdn mwa aan: hare 2 PM edronire ph arian, 
15th November.—Amused myself greater part of the day in coursing, 
killing one hare. I met to-day with a singular instance of Spanish 
parsimony. Macdonald’s patron, who is barber and physician a la 
Sangrado,* has the ague, and has suffered from it some time, and 
knows that bark which he can procure at Guinaldo, within three miles, 
will cure him, but though he allows health to be an indispensable part 
in happiness, and he is very rich, still he will not buy his cure, because 
(Hine) Cxqorssasts Alleromns Jo oy oe SA fs 6 Bo oo BA ny 
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+ Lieutenant A. Macdonald (Kane’s List, No. 1174), ‘A’? Troop, R.H.A., served at the capture 
of the Cape of Good Hope in 1806, and from thence proceeded with the expedition to Buenos 
Ayres, where he was twice severely wounded and taken prisoner. (For an account of his very 
gallant conduct on the 12th August 1806, see the diary of Captain Pococke, 71st Regiment, R.A.I. 
** Proceedings,” No. 13, Vol. XIV., p. 510. 
He served in the Peninsula from June 1809, to July 1814, and was present at the battles of 
Busaco, Fuentes de Honor, Salamanca Vitoria, of the Pyrenees, and Toulouse ; at the siege of St. 
Sebastian and the affairs of the Coa, Redinha, Pombal, Conderia, Foz d’Aronce, San M unos, Gave 
d@’Oleron, and Aire. 
At Waterloo as 2nd Captain of “H” Troop, he was severely wounded. Peninsular medal and 8 
clasps, Waterloo medal and C.B., and order of St. Anne of Russia. Lieut.-General Macdonald 
was brother to SirJohn Macdonald, Adjutant-General, and to Colonel Robert Macdonald, 1st Foot, 
he died in May, 1856. 
2Dr Sangrado was a purely imaginary character introduced by Le Sage in “Gil Blas” to illus- 
trate the ignorance of doctors in his day. Sangrado’s treatment consisted in bleeding and 
administering copious draughts of hot water to his patients. —F'.4.1, 
