Note 18 — Chapter II
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A Portugueze, who saw their entrance, compares them to the hospital patients between Caldas and Lisbon in a wet day, and in the worst part of the road;—huma enfiada de semimortos pobretoens, verdadeira imagem da conducta das Caldas em hum dia de chuva pelo enfadonho caminho de Espinhaço de Caō. He himself picked up one who, fainting with exhaustion, had fallen upon one of the street-dunghills,—an act of compassion which he afterwards repented of as a crime.—Os Sebastianistas, P. I. p. 1, 2.