He had caught a carbuncle-beast, and taken out the stone,.. but the canoe in which he embarked with it upset, and the jewel was lost, I, says D. Martin, saw him lamenting his evil fortune, and heard him say, that if he had not lost the carbuncle, he would have presented it to King Philip[1].
243. Busaco.
Busaco is become a memorable name in British History. The place itself has long been well known in Portugal, because the bare-footed Carmelites have what, in Carmelite language, is called a desart, there. In the early ages of Monachism, men became anchorites after their own fashion. Hermits were then described in the Rule of S. Benedict, (cap. 1,) as men "who not by a novitial fervour of devotion, but by long probation in a monastical kind of life, have learnt by the comfort and encou-
- ↑ Argentina, Canto 3.
