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 remain covered before her Majesty, on the presumption that they were tan embevecidos, that they forgot every thing but their mistress.

 

The Japanese preserve their ships from the worm (the teredo navalis) by charring them, a process which has also the advantage of preserving them from rotting.

 

The Jesuit P. Francisco de Fonseca has a curious story concerning relics in his account of the Embassy of the Conde de Villarmayor, Fernando Telles da Sylva, from Lisbon to Vienna, to bring home an Austrian princess for Joam V. "As we are upon the subject of the miracles which have been wrought by relics in Vienna," says he, "I will relate another prodigy that occurred in the same city, and which will serve 