Through Portugal . Portugal, and not in this alone. The monastery buildings of Belem sheltertwelve hundred orphan boys, who are thereclothed, fed, and educated by the State, and itwas a fine sight to witness them all at table in thegreat Manueline refectory of the vanished monks,and pleasant to hear the ringing of their youthfullaughter as they played joyously in the statelycloisters. In the museum adjoining there is acollection of ancient royal coaches, some of theinvery imposing and curious, but generally speak-ing not so interesting a collection as that in theroyal cahallerizas at Madrid. S
Through Portugal . Portugal, and not in this alone. The monastery buildings of Belem sheltertwelve hundred orphan boys, who are thereclothed, fed, and educated by the State, and itwas a fine sight to witness them all at table in thegreat Manueline refectory of the vanished monks,and pleasant to hear the ringing of their youthfullaughter as they played joyously in the statelycloisters. In the museum adjoining there is acollection of ancient royal coaches, some of theinvery imposing and curious, but generally speak-ing not so interesting a collection as that in theroyal cahallerizas at Madrid. Sated almost with sculptural richness, I left the monastery, and rested beneath the grateful shade of palms in the public garden opposite, with the broad Tagus before me and the glowing blue sky overhead until the perfect day began to wane. Then through the fine Pra9a de Dom Fernando, with its handsome Manueline pillar and statue of Albuquerque, the great viceroy of the Indies, I slowly wended my way back by the 242. LISBON chaotic river-bank, to Lisbon. Belem is beautifuland suggestive enough to provide reflection forone day without allowing other impressions todisturb it, and the sordid sights and sounds ofthe water-side were nothing to me, for the airyfancies of the artist in stone and the romanticmemories of the heroic days surrounded me aswith a mantle. Lisbon is a city of prospects, and, uninterestingas are its main streets, it is only necessary to standupon one of its many eminences to see spreadbefore you a wide and varied panorama. Theend windows of the upper corridors in the Hotelde Bragan9a afford a splendid view of the portand the mouth of the Tagus, whilst from theancient citadel of St. Jorge, and from thedome of the big classical church of Estrella, thecity and the rolling hills for miles around arespread out at the foot like a map in for myself, I have always consideredone of the most attractive coigns of vantage inLisbon to be the Largo da Gloria
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