They tell me that there are many desperate men in refuge among the caves on the coast, and among these you might choose a few who might be useful to you in your project; but it is not in this part that a rising can be effected, for the country inland is comparatively flat and wholly in the hands of the English.

It is on the west coast that the resistance to the English was continued to the last, and here from time to time it blazes out again.

In those parts, as they tell me, not only are there wild mountains and fastnesses such as we have in Scotland, but there are great morasses and swamps, extending over wide tracts, where heavy armed soldiers cannot penetrate, and where many people still maintain a sort of wild independence, defying all the efforts of the English to subdue them.

The people are wild and savage, and ever ready to rise against the English.
Here, then, is the country where you are most likely to find chiefs who may enter into our plans, and agree to second our efforts for independence.

Here are some rings and gold chains, which are all that remain to me of my possessions.