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Show 216 TilE LILY AND Til£ TOTEM. this prisoner, so long as Darbu had been a captive, had been a ::ipaniard always-the supply being sufficient, from the frequency of wrecks upon the coast, by wi.Jich an adequate number of captives was always to be lmd. The dominicus of Cales arc described as lying along a river, beyond the cape of Florida, forty or fifty leagues towards the southwest ; while those of Onathaqua were nearer to La. Caroline, on the northern side of the cape, "in a pln.cc which we call in the chart, Canuavcrcl, which is in 28 dcgrcces." When tho two Spaniards 'vcrc brougl1t before Laudonnicrc they were entirely naked. Their hair hung below their loins, as did that of the s.wagcs; and so completely had they become accustomed to the habits of the red-men, that the resumption of tho costume of ch,ilization was not only strange but irksome. But Laud.onnicro was not disposed to permit their acquired babita to supersede thoi!O of their origin. lie caused tho hair of his newlyfound Christians to be shorn, as heedless of tlw loss of strength wl1ich might follow as ever was Dalilah wlJilo docking tho long locks of her giant lover. I: was with great reluctance that the wild men submitted to this shearing. When the hair was finally taken off they insisted upon prcscn ·ing it, and rolling it in linen put it away carefully, to be shown in Europe as a proof of their wild and cruel experience. In removing tho shock fmm one of them, a little treasure of gold was found hidden in its mru;scs, to tho Yaluo of five-and-twenty crowns, by which tho Spaniard conclusively proved that one portion of his Spanish education had never deserted him. 'Vhat a commentary upon the wisdom of civiLization, that, in such a state, with such bonds, after such losses, of freedom, position, and the society of all the \veil-beloved and equal, his heart should still yearn for the keeping of a treasure which must, at every moment, have only served to mock IIISTOntC.AL SUllli.ARY. 217 the possessor with the dearer treasures of home, country, friends, religion, of which his fortunes bad made utter forfeit. But let us pas11 to the narrative of Barbu, himself-one of the recovered Fpnniards-which we owe, in some degree to history, but mostly to tradition. 10 |
