Note 13 — I SPANISH CHARACTER
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Ford considered the Basque to be as “proud as Lucifer and as combustible as his matches,” and there is a proverb, “En nave y en castillo no más que un vizcaino.” Cf. Camões. Os Lusiadas:
A gente biscainha que carece De polidas razões e que as injurias Muito mal dos estranhos compadece.