A knight1 he was, whose very sight would
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HUDIBRAS.
Tropical climates have certainly one advantage over all others, that is not to be held in light esteem2. They have rainy and dry seasons, that are exclusively rainy and dry. During six months, or nearly as long, the windows of heaven stand wide open, by night and by day, and the liquid blessing3 descends4 upon the thirsty earth beneath "in one lot," as auctioneers say; while on the other hand, the dry season has its great and manifold advantages and pleasures. With us in the temperate5 zone, as geographers6 call it, I suppose, for want of another name, a man does not think of riding twenty miles without India rubbers, a great coat, boots, and an umbrella, to say nothing of an entire change of raiment, if he is a prudent7, cautious old bachelor, or widower8; and even then he is as likely to get a ducking as to have fine weather.
During a tropical dry season, on the contrary, a journey of two hundred miles may be safely undertaken, without any of these encumbrances9; with two or three clean shirts, a man may scamper10 about for months, like a Roman light-infantryman, "impedimentis relictis," unless he should be so ill advised as to carry his wife and children with him.
Throughout the rainy season, many diseases arise, and make great destruction among those who remain on the sea-coast; those who can afford it, retreat to the more salubrious mountain regions, while, as aforesaid, those who stay behind, being generally the poor, the worthless, and the useless part of the community, fall victims to the numerous diseases generated by the excessive rains, and the then swampy11 condition of the country. This annual purgation of society, is perhaps another blessing of a tropical country. I know of more than one community, whose moral, and in some measure physical health, would in my mere12 mortal and short sighted notion of the fitness of things, be vastly benefited by the visitation of an energetic, wide sweeping13 epidemic14. Human society is very like a grate full of ignited anthracite coal, those parts of it that have lost their combustibility15, and become worthless, are constantly filtering down through the bottom of the grate; and so in society, those individuals, who are daily falling from a state of grace in the eyes of their fellow-worms, either as regards fashion, or property, or reputation, go to swell16 the number of the outcasts from the ranks of "good society;" a convenient phrase that has recently been invented, and signifies the speaker's own particular friends and acquaintances, though he and they may be at that very moment getting out stone on Blackwell's Island. So you see, reader, that it is fore-ordained, for I am a good deal of a fatalist, that one of the ingredients of civilized17 society should be a certain proportion of poor miserable18 devils, such as you and I both know.
It was just at the close of the rainy season, when Nature looked infinitely19 better and fresher for having her face washed, though she had been six months about it; the air seemed purer and more healthful, and the sky looked clearer and of a richer blue, for the half year's drenching20; it was at this particular time of the year, that we have thought proper to raise the curtain, and introduce the reader into the business part of the story.
It was between ten and eleven o'clock in the forenoon, the land breeze had done blowing, and the usual interregnum of calm, previous to the commencement of the sea-breeze, had taken place--the broad bay lay like a huge mirror, varied21 indeed by the long and regular undulations of the swell from the main ocean, which, though perhaps sufficient to discompose a landman's stomach, would not affect that of a sailor, who would probably testify under oath, that the water was "just as smooth as a mill-pond." The pelican22, that grave and contemplative bird, sat on the rocks near the water's edge, with his neck coiled up and stowed away in some recess23 in his capacious crop, the fish forgetting, or sailed on lazy wings across the bay, to seek some sequestered24 spot to doze25 away the time, and digest his huge breakfast--the graceful26 white crane of Mexico was wading27 about, flapping her wings, to drive the small fish into shoaler water, where she might pick them up at her leisure--the gaudy28 Spanish ensign, resembling three flannel29 petticoats, two red and one yellow, hung lifeless by its staff, as though said petticoats had just got through a hard day's washing--a soldier, with a paper segar in his mouth, was lounging backwards30 and forwards on that part of the parapet of the battery next the sea, while another, his counterpart, was "doing military duty" in the same soldierly manner on the quay31 opposite.
I may as well explain to the reader now as at a future time, that every collection of houses in South America, however small, has an open space in the centre, called the Plaza32; and an American Spaniard could no more conceive of a town or village without such plaza, than he could form one of Mr. Locke's abstract ideas of a horse, which ceases to be an abstract idea the moment it becomes invested with a body, head, legs, mane, tail, saddle, bridle33, belly-band, or crupper.
In the plaza of the Porte before mentioned was a multifarious assemblage: the barrack for a captain's guard, with the arms of the guard piled in front of it, formed one side, and the others were bounded by the quay or different buildings; a detachment of idlers were sunning themselves, and engaged in relieving each other from certain troublesome companions, that invariably infest34 the clothes and hair of all Spaniards and Russians, from the king to the beggar; jackasses, boys, and dogs occupied the rest of the square, and were differently engaged. At this moment a sergeant35 ran into the square, exclaiming, "el Commandante!" The military guard fell into their ranks at the tap of the drum, the idlers and boys took up a strong position in one corner, the jackasses were cudgelled into a retreat, while the dogs, like the pigs in New York, being free of the city, provided for themselves. A moment or two elapsed after these preparations had been made, when a party of mounted officers dashed into the square at full gallop36, as the South Americans always ride. The guard presented arms, the dogs barked their congratulations, and the party, having lighted fresh segars, walked down to the quay, directly opposite which lay an old dismantled37 Spanish frigate38, and moored39 alongside her was a schooner40, whose formidable length of main boom, and raking masts, announced her both a clipper and a Yankee. She was indeed an American schooner, that had been taken "flagrante delicto," in the very act of smuggling41, for which she was condemned42, and her crew sent to the mines. Such was the jealousy43 of the "authorities," that they unshipped the rudder, and unrove the running rigging, for fear she might go to sea of her own accord, and resume her smuggling voyage without the assistance of human agency.
The party whom we have left smoking on the wharf44, consisted of the military commandant, or governor, of St. Blas, Don Gaspar de Luna, Don Diego Pinto, the commander of a guarda-costa of eighteen guns, that lay in the offing, and which, to the most unpractised eye, bore about the same resemblance to an English or American man of war of the same class, as an old, worn-out jackass does to a handsome, high spirited, well groomed45 race-horse. The rest of the group was made up of young officers "of no mark or likelihood," and with whom we have nothing to do, with the exception of Don Gregorio Nunez, a dashing young cavalry46 officer, related to the viceroy, report said his natural son, and report said too that he was soon to marry the lovely niece of the governor; but the destinies were altogether of a different way of thinking. His character may be despatched in a few words--he was a vain coxcomb47, his whole soul lay in his gorgeous uniform, and he had a mortal antipathy48 to any thing like duty.
Don Gaspar de Luna, the redoubted governor of St. Blas and its "dependencies," bore the rank of colonel in the Spanish army. He had seen some service, having been present at the memorable49 siege of Gibraltar, that excited first the astonishment50 and then the ridicule51 of all Europe--astonishment at the immensity of the armament prepared, and ridicule on account of its inefficiency52, in wasting years before the place without doing any thing. An advanced party commanded by Don Gaspar, then a captain, had the good fortune to get soundly thrashed by a sallying detachment from the garrison53; and the king of Spain was so delighted that something had been done, that he promoted the fortunate captain to a colonelcy.
In early life he had been in America with his regiment54, where he had married a native Peruvian woman, by whom he had two daughters. In person he was about the middling height, and so far resembled an ellipse as this, that his transverse diameter nearly equalled his conjugate55, or, in plain English, he was about as broad as long. He prided himself not a little upon being a "Castiliano," or genuine old Spaniard, and professed56, and probably felt, the most implacable hatred57 to all heretics, especially English and Americans; but it was evidently an abstract feeling, for the moment a vessel58 of either nation arrived, which happened very often during the dry season, and the commanders began to make those little presents that they always found it for their interest to make, his orthodox zeal59 began, like Bob Acres' courage, "to ooze60 away through his fingers."
Although in the main a kind and indulgent father, his affections were centred in his niece, of whom we shall have occasion to speak more at large, whom he preferred to his daughter, and with good reason. He was fond of punch, such as he used to find in plenty and perfection on board the strange ships, and which he could drill none of his household into the art and mystery of making, except his niece; fonder of flattery, and compliment, and salutes61, from the heretical captains; and perhaps fondest of all of invitations to dine on board such ships as seemed to hold out hopes of good cheer. When a foreign vessel arrived, one would think, from his parade and flourish, that he expected an invasion; but it was all show. He was fond of telling long stories, and of sitting long over the bottle, foregoing the usual luxury of the siesta62, or nap after dinner, to enjoy the greater one of drinking; but, although his capacious stomach would contain an incredible quantity of wine, no one could say that he had ever been seen "the worse for liquor."
The duties of his station were but trifling63; for, although St. Blas was a royal naval64 depot65, the commanders of his majesty66's ships almost invariably preferred Callao, on account of its vicinity to the viceregal court at Lima. Any other person would have pined to death in such a remote and solitary67 corner of the earth, without society and without employment; but Don Gaspar was one of those peculiarly constituted individuals, who, having neither the faculty69 to communicate or receive new ideas, are as happy and contented70 in one place as another. He had come down to the water side at full gallop, and at the imminent71 risk of his neck, in consequence of a report, that a large, armed English ship, that was known to be on the coast trading, was approaching the Bay of St. Blas.
The nautical72 commander, Don Diego Pinto, was a man of upwards73 of sixty years of age, who had grown grey in the navy of Spain, without seeing any service of consequence. He had followed one of the viceroys, to whom he was recommended, to Peru, and the viceroy thought he had sufficiently74 done his duty to his protege by appointing him to the command of a guarda-costa of eighteen guns, stationed at St. Blas, and including in her cruising ground St. Josef, Mazattan, and the entrance to the Gulf75 of California. His prey76 was good, and his duty was light; but all his hopes of promotion77 were cut off by being stationed at what was generally considered the "ultima Thule," the very extremity78 of the navigable world.
The Yankees, to be sure, scorned any such fanciful restrictions79, and had long since penetrated80 to Nootka Sound and Behring's Straits, "the hunters of the mighty81 whale;" but then the Yankees were a very singular and peculiar68 race, and nobody in their senses cared to imitate them in their wild, and sometimes lawless, rambles82 over the face of the ocean--lawless, I wish to be understood, no farther than in sometimes forgetting to inquire, in a strange port, whether there was any custom-house there or not, and in most ports conceiving it to be the duty of the collectors of the customs to come on board and secure the duties, and if said collectors did not bear a hand and attend to their business, why then Jonathan, who is always in a hurry, was apt to land his cargo83 without the knowledge and without the leave of the custom-house officers.
Don Diego's hatred to heretics and foreigners, unlike that of the illustrious governor, was cordial and sincere, and by no means a general or abstract principle--he hated every individual as heartily84 as he did the whole species. He would never accept or even reply to an invitation from an English or American commander; and in the case of the American schooner already mentioned, he had treated the crew with such savage85 barbarity, that, but for the interference of Don Gaspar, they would have perished from starvation and ill treatment. He was by no means a favorite guest at the governor's house; the ladies of the family detested86 him, not so much for his cruelty, for they heard but little of that, but for his morose87 and churlish disposition88, and, perhaps more than either, on account of the general belief that his wife, a lovely woman, and much younger than himself, had fallen a victim to his unkindness and cruelty.
Women, the dear creatures, have an infinitely larger share of esprit du corps89, if I may so call it, or rather a community of feeling, than men. Nothing will ruin a man's character and good name among the females of his acquaintance so soon or so effectually as the reputation of ill treatment or unkindness to his wife, while the men would think but little or nothing of it. Women think, and feel, and act most correctly and justly, and in a manner that does them infinite honor, upon this subject; indeed, I am fully90 convinced, that on most questions of social morality, the feelings of women are more pure and right than those of men. But they have a thousand ingenious methods of making known their contempt and detestation of the cowardly scoundrel that would raise his hand against one of their sex, and every method cuts like a two-edged sword. I have known, and do at this moment know, many men who have endured the contempt and hatred of their fellow-men with the most stoical indifference--they went on hated and despised to the grave, but they made money at every step, and they cared for nothing else; but I never, in all my life, and in all my wanderings--and I have not travelled about this watery91 ball, nor so far through life, with my eyes and ears shut--I never knew a man who did not wince92 and writhe93 under the hatred and contempt of the other sex. I am not a profound believer in innate94 ideas, if they are such ridiculous ones as metaphysicians talk of--namely, that two and two make four, and such sort of nonsense--but I do believe in certain innate principles and feelings, that govern our thoughts and actions as powerfully and irresistibly95 as instinct impels96 the brute97 creation; and that one of those principles is an innate desire to please and secure the good opinion of the opposite sex, born with every man and woman, or at least developed, more or less strongly, in very early childhood, and that too without any instruction or hint from others.
While the party stood on the quay, puffing98 their segars with all the gravity and silence that was becoming their rank and birth as officers of his Catholic Majesty and natives of old Spain, a subaltern officer approached, and, with abundance of parade and obsequiousness99, informed the governor that there was a ship in the offing, becalmed at that time, but apparently100 bound in. The officer proceeded to inform him farther, that there were two American ships at St. Josef, one at Monteny, and that a fourth had been seen the day before at sea, standing101 to the southward. His excellency, though not particularly indignant at the idea of his principality being visited by a foreign vessel, thought proper to appear "brimful of wrath102" at the intelligence.
"Ah! those accursed and heretical wretches103! they swarm104 upon this coast as thick as sand-flies."
"And should be destroyed by the same means, by fire," growled105 his naval associate; "they should be burnt at their anchors wherever they are found; for if they have not already been guilty of any violation106 of the laws, they very soon will."
"Signor Pinto," said the more humane107 and considerate governor, "you are to recollect108 that our gracious sovereign is on terms of peace and amity109 with this new people, who have lately come into existence, and who seem to be driven by the devils to wander abroad, instead of passing their lives peaceably at home. We cannot therefore treat them as enemies; and even when taken in violation of the laws, they must be heard in their own defence."
This grave rebuke110 rather mortified111 him of the marine112 department, and he was for a few minutes sulky, which the governor perceiving, and not wishing to offend him, again addressed him.
"But come, signor, cheer up. I know the sight of that schooner always makes you feel unpleasantly; you cannot forget how she misled you one dark night, and well nigh decoyed your ship ashore113, by setting adrift a light in a tub."
This was but cold comfort to the redoubtable114 sea-officer, who was by no means fond of hearing the anecdote115 of the lantern in a tub repeated or alluded116 to; and he was about making an angry answer, when the sight of the schooner brought to his recollection that he had finally captured her, and had enjoyed the fiendish pleasure of abusing and maltreating her crew, and that, to crown his triumph, he had seen them set out for the mines. Poor man! he did not know, what indeed was a kind of state secret, that the viceroy, not wishing to embroil117 his sovereign in an unpleasant quarrel, or, as he was about returning to old Spain, wishing to leave behind him a character for clemency118 and humanity, had ordered them to be set at liberty, and they had actually embarked119 at Acapulco on board an English South Sea whaler. This had taken place a full year previous; and while the vindictive120 Spaniard was chuckling121 over their fancied sufferings "many a fathom122 deep" in the damp and unhealthy galleries of a silver mine, the objects of his hatred were jogging along comfortably towards London, with a full ship and light hearts.
In reply to the governor's "quip modest," he merely growled out something about zeal in discharging his duty, and anxiety to prevent smuggling, to which the governor replied,
"There is no danger of these foreigners smuggling, while they are so strictly123 watched by his majesty's ships and faithful soldiers. I wish, signor, you would go out with your ship, and bring this stranger in; I do not like to see him hovering124 about in this suspicious manner."
"It is impossible to go out, now that the sea-breeze is just setting in," said the naval officer, who had no more idea of working out with a head wind, than he had of flying, though the bay is open enough for the channel fleet to beat out in order of battle.
While this question was in agitation125, an officer crossed in a skiff from the battery, and informed Don Gaspar that the sea-breeze had set in the offing, and that the stranger had hauled by the wind, and was standing off shore; further, that she was an American whaleman, that had probably pursued her huge prey close in shore. Don Gaspar was somewhat disappointed at this intelligence.
"I almost wish she had come in," said he, in a low tone, "for, heretics as they are, and damned to all eternity126 as they certainly will be, (for which blessed be the saints,) it cannot be denied that the puncho, or pontio, which they make, is most refreshing127 and delicious in this warm weather."
But as the Yankee manifested no symptoms of coming in to anchor, and thereby128 give him a chance for his glass of punch, he yielded to the suggestion of Don Gregorio, his aid-de-camp; and having lighted fresh segars, they mounted their horses, and rode back to San Blas.
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