The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-07-03

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IN letter resolved here from u Cathoens
shipwreeked and poor, ana an ooyeec Ior charIta-
bic subscription, found no entree tn pleasant
social intercourse ia Goa and he could only get
a life rescuing crust from adventures and out
casts, almost as needy as himself. However hrs
great abilities were obliged 10 command atten-
ton; and although be lived habitually under 4
cloud and a prejudice, created by false impros-
siOns, he was often called upon 10 DO work which
his suTeriors could not do, even in their own line;
and So be often got some pittance out OF an emolus
ment, which might rightiully -have all belonged to
him. He began to earn q subsistence; but as it
was but a scanty and a pitable one, he was glad
when an offer was made to him 70 sail from Goa
and 20 return to Portugal, to accept it-glad after
sixteen years of hardship, adventure and disap-
~pointmenh to return home.-It would be home
with poverty and friendlessness. Home without
a mother or any love welcoming face. Home
where there were no honors or hopes. Home,
bare and comfortIess, and without any household
angel. But the weary man yearned nevertheless,
for the sight and the rest of the old land and
he longed 10 publish his life work and the out
pOurings Of his heart, IN the mother tongue, which
his gifts of language had 50 refined and graced,-
and in the mother-land. And there was some
thing more that led this man back 10 the banks of
the Tagus. This storm tossed, hard battered
veteran of life, who was stripped of all gleanings
or graces offortune, and upon whose bare head a
stormy fate had hailed and howled its worst, now
1cdIuSd 10 ~ uOLuC,-lDdt III Ill1ul pOuE Oit
once more the agony of his unGying love upon Il
tomb in the church of Christ's Wounds"
a CROW PREFERRED TO AN EAGLE.
When Camoens returned to Lisbon, the young
Prince Sebastian whose cause in early days he
had championed, and to whom he dedicates the
Lusiad, was now upon the throne of Portugal.
The new King was wishful TO relieve and elevate
Camoens but the old iealousies that had fought
the Poet, and that still surrounded the throne,
fearing in his advancement, the contrast to their
.incompeteney, that his eminently superior abili-
ties might show forth fearing also his spirit of
independence and uncompromising. patriotism,
kept him away from the royal presence, and out
side of the precincts of the palace. And it was
SO, that when King Sebastian set out ON his great
expedition TO Africa. and desired to have with
him a nan Of ability as an obseryant historian,
who could brilliantly illustrate the progress and
the results of the expedition, and chose Camoens
for this duty that instead of him, this jealous
court influence succeeded in imposing upon the
King, a weak noble named Diego Bernardes,-a
creature merely fitted for a little social or official
parade; and he, and King, and c~ourtiers, and all
the events of this notable expedition would have
been lost for ever in the lethe of the past, were 1t
not for the patriotic, loving pen of poor Camoens.
He the outcast, left out in the cold,-yet manu-
featured the glory. 1t shines in the pages of the
Lusiad, which noble illustration Of patriotic ex-
preston, was after many bitter ~strivings with
poverty, at last given to the world, and was first
published in Lisbon in 1872, in the forty-seyenth
year of the life os the Poet As in this poem he
glorifes, in spite of all disappointments, the
name of Sebastian, it was impossible that a King
of any heart, however much Influenced by others,
should ignore such unseldsh and meritorious
loyalty, therefore he conferred upon our poor
hero, a pension, as stated by Faria Sonsa and
others, of about three thousand milreis a year,
an afiuent competency for one who had been
contemplating the prospects of beggary in the
streets of Lisbon.