How I Found Livingstone Travels, Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray







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Hence we were driven to the huge palace of Necessidades, which is
but a wing of a building that no - Page 19
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Hence We Were Driven To The Huge Palace Of Necessidades, Which Is But A Wing Of A Building That No King Of Portugal Ought Ever To Be Rich Enough To Complete, And Which, If Perfect, Might Outvie The Tower Of Babel.

The mines of Brazil must have been productive of gold and silver indeed when the founder imagined this enormous edifice.

From the elevation on which it stands it commands the noblest views, - the city is spread before it, with its many churches and towers, and for many miles you see the magnificent Tagus, rolling by banks crowned with trees and towers. But to arrive at this enormous building you have to climb a steep suburb of wretched huts, many of them with dismal gardens of dry cracked earth, where a few reedy sprouts of Indian corn seemed to be the chief cultivation, and which were guarded by huge plants of spiky aloes, on which the rags of the proprietors of the huts were sunning themselves. The terrace before the palace was similarly encroached upon by these wretched habitations. A few millions judiciously expended might make of this arid hill one of the most magnificent gardens in the world; and the palace seems to me to excel for situation any Royal edifice I have ever seen. But the huts of these swarming poor have crawled up close to its gates, - the superb walls of hewn stone stop all of a sudden with a lath- and-plaster hitch; and capitals, and hewn stones for columns, still lying about on the deserted terrace, may lie there for ages to come, probably, and never take their places by the side of their brethren in yonder tall bankrupt galleries.

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