AustLit

Epigraph: ‘As the vessel in which the saint embarked for India fell down the Tagus, and shook out her reefs to the winds, many an eye was dimmed with unwonted tears; for she bore a regiment of a thousand men to reinforce the garrison of Goa; nor could the bravest of that gallant host gaze on the receding land without foreboding that he might never see again those dark chestnut forests and rich orange groves, with the peaceful convents and long-lovedhomes reposing in their bosom.’ – Edinburgh Review.