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you a handful of nuts without first bringing the bundle near to his lips with a graceful wave of salutation. A lady from Lisbon told us that this politeness surpassed that of the native Portuguese; and the wife of an English captain, who had sailed d education; so that, when you have asked them if they have ever been to St. Michael, and they have answered, Yes,--or to Lisbon, and they have answered, No,--then social intercourse rather flags. I gladly record, however, that there were some remare heard a rumor of a Portuguese Uncle Tom also, but I never could find the copy. The old Convent Libraries were sent to Lisbon, on the suppression of the monasteries, and never returned. There was once a printing-press on the island, but one of thour visit, without further Satanic interference. Books proved to be scarce on the island. One official gentleman from Lisbon, quite an accomplished man, who spoke French fluently and English tolerably, had some five hundred books, chiefly in the