Ingenious and diverting letters of a lady's travels into Spain; describing the devotions, nunneries, humour, customs, laws, militia, trade, diet, and recreations of that people / [Marie Catherine Jumelle de Berneville Aulnoy].
- Madame d'Aulnoy
- Date:
- 1717
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Ingenious and diverting letters of a lady's travels into Spain; describing the devotions, nunneries, humour, customs, laws, militia, trade, diet, and recreations of that people / [Marie Catherine Jumelle de Berneville Aulnoy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![we having Ween a Day and two Nights in continua] Alarms, the Weather chang’d, and we arriv'd at Algiers. I was fo glad to fee myfelf in a Condition to deliver Men- der, that 1 reckon’d all the Dangers we underwent as nothing : But, alas ! what became of me in difembarking, when after all the Search which could be made, I perceiv’d there was no hope of finding the little Cabinet, wherein I had put all I had was moft precious : I found myfelf feiz’d with fuch violent Grief, that I thought I fhould have expired before I got out of the Veffel. Without doubt this Cabinet, which was little, and of which I took but fmall care during the Tempeft, fell into the Sea, or was ftole; which ever of thefe two it was, 1 had a confiderable Lofs, and I had only remaining Jewels to the Value of a thoufand Pounds, which I had kept for all Events about me. i Irefolv’d with this to make a trial with Mendez’s Patron: As foon as we were in the Town, we enquir’d out his Houfe, (for Melurawas wellknown) and went thither clad as Gentlemen. I cannor exprefs to you, Madam, the Trouble I was in draw- ing near this Houfe, where I knew my dear Lover languifh’d in Chains: What fad RefleGtions did { not make? How did 1 look when J enter’d the Corfary’s Houfe, and faw Mendez chain’d, with feveral others, who wereleading out to work in the Field 2 I fhould have fall’n at his Feet, had not Henrietta born me up; I no longer knew where I was, nor what Idid: I would have fpoken to him, but Grief had fo feiz’d on my Spi. sits, that my Tongue could not utter a Word. As to him, he beheld me not; he was fo fad and deprefs’d, that he could look on no Body ; and one muft love him as much as I did, to know him, fo greatly was he chang’d. After having been fome time coming to myfelf, I went into a low Room, where I was told Meluza was : 1 faluted him, and told him the Occafion of my Voyage; that Mendez was my near Relation ; that he was undone by the Lofs of a Galeon, and his Captivity together, and that “twas out of my own Money that I would pay his Ranfom. The Moor appear’d to be a little concern’d. It was not his Bufinefs to enquire whence I had my Money ; but this he certainly knew, that Mendez was rich; and to flew that he would not take all Advantages, he would. therefore fet him at twenty thoufand Crowns. | + Alas! what would this have been, had I not loft my Jewels 2 but this was too much in the Condition I was in. In fne, after feveral long fruitlefs Diffutes, I took on me immediately a Refolution which could only be infpir’d by an gxtream i F yes](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30538178_0085.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
