Show an old view of the th spaniard let jt us see what that acute observer and profound thinker francois de do la mothe ie eaid said about the SP span lards judo of the eighteenth century they are melancholy treacherous inhospitable miserly superstitious importunate in their courtesy but constant deter mined taciturn admirable foot sol luers tum enduring hunger thirst all the fatigues of war accomplishing by the bead head rather than the hand and gaining more by auses rases and stratagems than by open force form the spaniard is cour keoua at thos tho start text contenting himself with remarking quietly all that which I 1 i is of value in a place but his leave tak ing Is terrible te ible because it is then that he strikes pillaging and laying waste without mercy boston journal |