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Updated: May 27, 2025
By noon, however, on the second day, having had a slant from the land wind in the night previous, we got well to windward of the long sandy spit that forms the east end of the island, and were in the act of getting a small pull of the weather braces, before edging away for St Jago, when the wind fell suddenly, and in half an hour it was stark calm 'una furiosa calma, as the Spanish sailors quaintly enough call it.
But what can an individual soul in a world of matter actually be? Is it the rock or the mountain that is the individual? Is it the tree? And nevertheless the fact always remains that spirit and matter are at strife. This is the thought that Espronceda expressed when he wrote: Aquí, para vivir en santa calma, o sobra la materia, o sobra el alma.
In an access of fury the stout woman raged and stormed; the waiter, a lank young fellow, with a simple, good-natured face, after trying to explain that he had committed the fault by inadvertence, suddenly raised his hand, like one about to exhort a congregation, and exclaimed in a tone of injured remonstrance, "Un po' di calma! Un po' di calma!"
He felt not for the fathers whose children were thus taken from their wigwams, and committed to the grave of the roaring waters. Calma, his wife, had fallen by a foeman's arrow, and in the blood of his enemies he had terribly avenged his bereavement. Fifteen years had passed since then, and the infant which Calma left had matured into a beautiful maiden.
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