Ship And Shore in Madeira Lisbon And the Mediterranean
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Michael's cave, whose winding depths lead down among the foundations of the rock. You enter by a small aper- ture, half concealed by shrubs, and which really promises but little in compensation for your pains. But when you have got fairly within, and see the outline of objects dimly revealed in the light that strays through the narrow opening, the stalactites descending in columned beauty from the fretted vault to the well-formed pedestal, the arch, sweep- ing from pillar to pillar with archite...ctural symmetry and precision, the dark portals of other caverns leading down to regions unknown, you are as much surprised at the inward as outward structure of this singular mass. 168 SHIP AND SHORE. It was here that the devoted five hundred con- cealed themselves through a long anxious day, till the shadows of night again concealed their invading movements from the enemy. They had vowed never to return, till they had won back this Rock to the Spanish crown. They had taken the sacrament, been shrived by their priest, and were thus doubly armed not having before them the fear of this world or the next.
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