Note 16 — Chapter X · (continued 2)

Two persons were left alive when the French thought their accursed work was done. One of them lingered three days before he was relieved by death. Feliz Lourenco, the surveyor of the high road, was the other. “He,” says Neves, (writing in 1811,) “still lives ... but in what a condition! With his body and face disfigured by the marks of powder, and the scars of eight and twenty bayonet wounds; ... with his left eye struck out by a ball, the bones of his right shoulder broken, the tendons rendered useless, and the hand paralyzed. It is from himself that I have received the details of this frightful transaction, of which there exists no other witness, except the murderers themselves.”—Historia Geral da Invasam dos Francezes em Portugal, t. iv. p. 42.