Then I determined to go to Spain but found I had arrived just one day too late for the last of the three days of the Mardi Gras and too early for bull fights.

Had I taken Saavedra's letters I should have gone to Madrid and met the Queen and other proud folks.

So on the whole I was blue.

But I have now determined to take a boat for Tangier at once where I have letters to the Duke de Tnas who is the Master of the Hounds there and a great sport and they say it is very amusing and exciting.

In a fortnight I shall go to Malta.