Every evil is done and there is no remedy, and the Christian has no more consideration shown him than the infidel.

Now, senor, in a town near the Orinoco I once saw on a church the archangel Michael, made of stone, and twice as tall as a man, with one foot on a monster shaped like a cayman, but with bat's wings, and a head and neck like a serpent.

Into this monster he was thrusting his spear.

That is the kind of person that should be sent to rule these latitudes--a person of firmness and resolution, with strength in his wrist.

And yet it is probable that this very man--this St.Michael--is hanging about the palace, twirling his thumbs, waiting for an appointment, while other weaker men, and--Heaven forgive me for saying it--not above a bribe, perhaps, are sent out to rule over this province." On this string he would harp by the hour; it was a lofty subject on which he had pondered much in his solitary life, and he was glad of an opportunity of ventilating his grievance and expounding his views.