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Garibaldi, on the first reports of the Pope's liberal leanings, wrote to the Nuncio Bedini at Montevideo, October 17, 1847, offering the services of the Italian Legion to his Holiness, who was now almost on the eve of a war with Austria, "although," the letter said, "the writer was well aware that St.
Skinner turned to "osculo" and discovered that it meant "I am ordered to " The next word in the cablegram was "Montevideo." "Good heavens!" Mr. Skinner gasped. "He has received orders, presumably emanating from us, ordering him to Montevideo! Can it be possible that Mr. Ricks or Matt Peasley has sent him a cablegram without my knowledge? I must read further."
We strapped him down when he got violent, and after three days of frightful physical and mental agony he died. We buried him with the usual ceremonies, and Mr. Barnes took command. "He and I had a consultation. We were well up toward the river Plate, and he was for putting into Montevideo and cabling the owners for orders.
Paquita did not like the idea at first, but when I assured her that we were getting to the end of our money, and that her aunt might be able to put me in the way of obtaining employment, she consented, like the dutiful little wife she was. Next day I discovered her relation without very much trouble, Montevideo not being a large city.
I have not come all this distance merely to say that the moon came in dry, or that yesterday, being Friday, Dona Demetria tasted no meat. It is a long story, senor." "How many leagues long? Do you intend it to last all the way to Montevideo? The longer it is the sooner you ought to begin it." "There are things easy to say, and there are other things not so easy," returned Santos.
Going down to the harbour, I found the captain of a small schooner trading between Montevideo and Buenos Ayres, and, learning that he intended leaving for the last port in three days' time, I bargained with him to take us, and got him also to consent to receive Demetria on board at once. I then sent a message to Mr.
To conclude very briefly the narrative of this expedition, I will here add that the day after Mac's departure, altering his passport to fit George's description, we sailed on the Chimborazo south to Montevideo.
Prison it certainly was, for sentries, armed with Remingtons, herded us like sheep. The three weeks' detention came to an end, as everything earthly does, and then an open barge, towed by a steam-launch, conveyed us to Montevideo. Quite a fresh breeze was blowing, and during our eleven hours' journey we were repeatedly drenched with spray.
"Say to them," he answered, "that you met an old man a horse tamer named Lucero and that he told you this fable for you to repeat to the townspeople: Once there was a great tree named Montevideo growing in this country, and in its branches lived a colony of monkeys.
Since I lost Transita I have had one thought, one love, one religion, and it is all told in one word Patria. "Years passed. I was captain in General Oribe's army at the siege of my own city. One day a lad was captured in our lines, and came very near being put to death as a spy. He had come out from Montevideo, and was looking for me.
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