The Bible In Spain By George Borrow




































































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In Conclusion, I Beg Leave To State That I Am Fully Aware Of The Various Faults And Inaccuracies Of The Present Work.

It is founded on certain journals which I kept during my stay in Spain, and numerous letters written to my friends in England, which they had subsequently the kindness to restore:

The greater part, however, consisting of descriptions of scenery, sketches of character, etc., has been supplied from memory. In various instances I have omitted the names of places, which I have either forgotten, or of whose orthography I am uncertain. The work, as it at present exists, was written in a solitary hamlet in a remote part of England, where I had neither books to consult, nor friends of whose opinion or advice I could occasionally avail myself, and under all the disadvantages which arise from enfeebled health; I have, however, on a recent occasion, experienced too much of the lenity and generosity of the public, both of Britain and America, to shrink from again exposing myself to its gaze, and trust that, if in the present volumes it finds but little to admire, it will give me credit for good spirit, and for setting down nought in malice.

Nov. 26, 1842.

CHAPTER I

Man Overboard - The Tagus - Foreign Languages - Gesticulation - Streets of Lisbon - The Aqueduct - Bible tolerated in Portugal - Cintra - Don Sebastian - John de Castro - Conversation with a Priest - Colhares - Mafra - Its Palace - The Schoolmaster - The Portuguese - Their Ignorance of Scripture - Rural Priesthood - The Alemtejo.

On the morning of the tenth of November, 1835, I found myself off the coast of Galicia, whose lofty mountains, gilded by the rising sun, presented a magnificent appearance.

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