British Exploits in South America: a History of British Activities in Exploration, Military ...
British Exploits in South America: a History of British Activities in Exploration, Military ...
W H William Henry Koebel
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But even a court has its seamy side — or tail, as the case may be. In this case it was most decidedly a tail, since the seamy element was com- prised of the Lisbon beggars. Enterprising mendicants, these, to whose pilgrimages the great South Atlantic Ocean itself formed no barrier I Indeed, the devotion of these folk to the coins of the migrated nobility and of the rich colonists of Brazil appears to have known no bounds! It is said that no vessel ever left the Tagus, bound for Brazil, without ...its quota of these tactful gentry. But when it came to giving them free and official passages on men-of-war, the thing grew Qilbertian to a degree I Yet so it was, and the pressed crew of many a Portuguese frigate had to trim the vessel's sails in order that they might blow a crowd of these mendicants to their destination. One of the most notable instances of this was the sail- ing of the great warship Dom Joao VI, which, after various unsuccessful attempts, succeeded in crossing the bar of the Tagus in 1820, carrying no fewer than tvfelve hundred passengers.
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