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 CHAPTER VI.

anxious to behold a country from which we had hitherto been excluded for so many years, we all applied for leave to go onshore, and obtained it. Even the seamen were allowed the same indulgence, and went in parties of twenty and thirty at atime. We were followed and gaped at by the people; but shunned at the same time as "hereticos." The inns of the town, like all the rest of them in Spain, have