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Only in the Basques and Picts do we seem to find some remnants of the earlier non-Aryan tongues. But whether these Aryans really came from Asia, as it used to be thought, or developed in the east of Europe, is uncertain.
Champlain himself identifies 'the great river of Norumbega' with the Penobscot. Traders from the extreme south of France, whose chief port was St Jean de Luz. Though living on the confines of France and Spain, the Basques were of different racial origin from both Spaniards and French.
"The waters of the sea are vast, and their bottom cannot be seen: but over them I will pass, that I may behold my love." The Basques are a singing rather than a poetical people.
Its beginnings were modest indeed three wooden buildings containing quarters for the leader and his men, a large storehouse, and a fort with two or three small cannon commanding the river. The Basques, all this time, were sullenly brooding over the wrong which they conceived had been done them.
So in the estimation of that citizen of the most enlightened capital in the universe, these Basques were ruthless boobies with an insatiable passion for lapping blood. But mistakes and exaggerations will occur in every war. The only way to obviate them is to put an end to war altogether which will never be done!
That the Umbrians were after obstinate struggles driven back from the north and west into the narrow mountainous country between the two arms of the Apennines which they subsequently held, is clearly indicated by the very fact of their geographical position, just as the position of the inhabitants of the Grisons and that of the Basques at the present day indicates the similar fate that has befallen them.
Corpulent women must forego the swagger little basques or any sort of short, flounced effects below the waist-line. Nos. 52 and 53 are eminently adapted to the matron of ample dimensions. One observer of beauty-giving effects has not unadvisedly called the waist-line "the danger-line." A stout sister, above all others, should not accentuate the waist-line.
'Marry, cried Calandrino, 'that were a fine country; but tell me, what is done with the capons that they boil for broth? Quoth Maso, 'The Basques eat them all. Then said Calandrino, 'Wast thou ever there? 'Was I ever there, quotha! replied Maso.
The Basques, of the tracts approaching the Pyrenees, says Colonel Napier, are a strikingly different people from the inhabitants of the low parts around, whether Spaniards or Biscayans. They are finely made, tall men, with aquiline noses, fair complexions, light eyes, and flaxen hair; instead of the swarthy complexion, black hair, and dark eyes of the Castilian.
The prisoners were brought back to Quebec some days after in the custody of six Basques, who delivered to Champlain the following letter: "Messieurs: I give you notice that I have received a commission from the king of Great Britain, my honoured lord and master, to take possession of the countries of Canada and Acadia, and for that purpose eighteen ships have been despatched, each taking the route ordered by His Majesty.
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