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Updated: May 19, 2025
The island, so the monk told me, owes its origin, or rather discovery, to two lovers who fled thither in the year fourteen hundred and something. One of these lovyers, my young friend, was a Scotchman named Robert Matchim, and the other was a Miss Anna D'Arfet, a young lady residing at Lisbon, whose parents objected to Robert and refused to match her with Matchim."
"Being a Scotchman, although poor, as few of the nation are," proceeded he, aiming this retaliatory shot at the master's mate, who, he knew, hailed from the North and hadn't a spare bawbee to bless himself with, "our friend, Robert Matchim, being as brave as he was bold, would not be done by a pitiful Portuguese laird.
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