kindness, hiding his suspicion. One evening he invited him to see a
country-house and eat a collation, which he did; after which the
merchant, with three or four more of his friends, for a rarity showed
him a cave hard by the house, which went in at a very narrow hole, but
within was very capacious, in the side of a high mountain. It was so
dark that they carried a torch. Says one to the Englishman, 'Did you
ever know where bats dwell?' he replied no; 'Then here, Sir,' say
they, 'you shall see them;' then, holding up the light to the roof,
they saw millions hanging by their legs. So soon as they had done,
they, frightening the birds, made them all fly about them, and putting
out the light ran away, and left the Englishman there to get out as
well as he could, which was not until the next morning.

This winter I fell sick of an aguish distemper, being then with child;
but I believe it was with eating more grapes than I am accustomed to,
being tempted by their goodness, especially the Frontiniac, which
exceed all I ever eat in Spain and France.

The beginning of May 1663, there happened in Lisbon an insurrection of
the people of the town, about a suspicion, as they pretended, of some
persons disaffected to the public; upon which they plundered the
Archbishop's house, and the Marquis of Marialva's house, and broke
into the treasury; but after about ten thousand of these ordinary
people had run for six or seven hours about the town, crying 'Kill all
that is for the Castile,' they were appeased by their Priests, who
carried the Sacrament amongst them, threatening excommunication,
which, with the night, made them depart with their plunder. Some few
persons were lost, but not many.

Upon the 10th of June came news to this Court of the total rout of Don