hed a seaport called Chiviter
Vik, terribly foot-foundered, and there I met a sailor who spoke Irish,
and who belonged to a vessel just ready to sail for France; and the
sailor took me on board his vessel, and said I was his brother, and the
captain gave me a passage to a place in France called Marseilles; and
when I got there, the captain and sailor got a little money for me and a
passport, and I travelled across the country towards a place they
directed me to called Bayonne, from which they said I might, perhaps, get
to Ireland. Coming, however, to a place called Pau, all my money being
gone, I enlisted into a regiment called the Army of the Faith, which was
going into Spain, for the King of Spain had been dethroned and imprisoned
by his own subjects, as perhaps you may have heard; and the King of
France, who was his cousin, was sending an army to help him, under the
command of his own son, whom the English called Prince Hilt, because when
he was told that he was appointed to the command, he clapped his hand on
the hilt of his sword. So I enlisted into the regiment of the Faith,
which was made up of Spaniards, many of them priests who had run out of
Spain, and broken Germans, and foot-foundered Irish, like myself. It was
said to be a blackguard regiment, that same regiment of the Faith; but,
'faith, I saw nothing blackguardly going on in it, for you would hardly
reckon card-playing and dominoes, and pitch and toss blackguardly, and I
saw nothing else in it. There was one thing in it which I disliked--the
priests drawing their Spanish knives occasionally, when they lost their
money. After we had been some time at Pau, the army of the Faith was
sent across the mountains into Spain, as the vanguard of the French; and
no sooner did the Spaniards see the Faith than they made a dash at it,
and the Faith ran away, myself along with it, and got behind the French
army, which told it to keep there, and the Faith did so, and followed the
French army, which soon scattered the Spaniards, and in the end placed
the king on his throne again. When the war was over the Faith was
disbanded; some of the foreigners, however, amongst whom I was one, were
put into a Guard regiment, and there I continued for more than a year.

"One day, being at a place called the Escurial, I took stock, as the
tradesmen say, and found I possessed the sum of eighty dollars won by
playing at cards, for though I could not play so well with the foreign
car