LIFE OF GAB.JBA.LDI.

them whether our unhappy friends returned thence. During the last

war we had ntany Austrian prisoners, but we respected them." What

became of many other officers and soldiers who followed Garibaldi up to

the last moment P Even at the present day their fate remains a secret ;

some were diseovered by the enemy, chased through forests and morasses,

and finally nptured and shot ; others, killed like dangerous animals,

remained without sepulture in these deserted districts, and became food

for wolves.

We have seen Garibaldi, who quitted Rome with 4000 men and 800

horse, finally left alone. After the death of his beloved A.nnita, he had
not even the sorrowful consolation of indulging in his grief, for the
country was st;ill occupied by the Austrians, and his own safety compelled
him to take the greatest precautions. Frequently hidden for several
days in succession beneath hospitable roofs, whose owners braved all dan­
gers to offer him assistance ; at other times concealed in woods and caves
. during the day, and only continuing his journey by night, he at length
reached Ravenna, where he passed some days in the house of a sure
friend. Then pursuing his troubled wanderings, he succeeded in reaching
Tuscany safe 1md sound. Setting out thence in a fishing-boat, he landed
on September 5th at Porto Venere, a small seaport in the Sardinian

States, on the Gulf of Genoa.

The general's painful pilgrimage had lasted thirty-five days. During

all this time, Garibaldi, frequently passing through the middle of

the Austrians, was ever saved from the dangers he incurred by the

ingenious devotion of truly Italian hearts. :Reduced to the melancholy

condition of baving frequently nothing to eat but the wild fruit he

plucked in the forest, he could not evince his gratitude as he could have

desired ; but he delivered a certificate for each acL of kindneu done him,

and these precious documents are at the present day so patents of

nobility for the families who merited them.

The excitement of the popular mind caused great disturbances to the

Sardinian government, who feared to encourage it, lest they might

be carried fw·ther than they wished to go. They were alarmed at the

spread of the theories of the Red Republicans, aud supposing that

Garibaldi, owing to his recent relations with Mazzini, was strongly

imbued with them, they saw with great displeaaure his reaidence in

Sardin i a . In spite of an order of the day issued by the Chamber of

Deputies to the effect, that any intimidation to send him away would be

a violation of the constitution, after a few weeks devoted to his country,

during which t;he intrepid soldier visited his mother and children at Nice,

P2

.izedbyGooglc

LIPB O'F GARIBALDI.

he was advised to make preparations for his departure. Garibaldi
obeyed withont a murmur ; he refused all offers of pecuniary aasiatance
made him, and determined to fall back once again on his own resources.
He was. soon seen at Tangiers and other seaports, as actively engaged u
if the days of Monte Video and Rome had never glittered; but employ­
ment pr-esently failfld him in the mercantile marine. While waiting for
new emtployment to offer itself, let na see, from the pages of a recent
writer, what a courageous resolution ia capable of.

"In 1850, in one of the least frequented streets of New York, by the
side of a small candle factory, was a tobacconist's shop, kept by a
Genoes1' of about sixty years of age, handsome, tall, with a noble face and
lofty language. It was Joseph Avezzoni, formerly General, Chief of a
Government, Minister of War; who now sold cigars to support himsell
in the ln.nd of exile. At this period, one of Garibaldi's friends, an officer
in the G·enoese Navy, arrived at New York, and hia first visit was to the
illustrious captain. He fonnd him, as be told me, with hia shirt sleeves
turned up, engaged in a corner of hia ahop in dipping wicks attached to
abort canes into a pan of boiling tallow. "I am happy to see you," he
said, " a.nd I should lilr.e to shake your hand, but mind the tallow ! You
have arrived at a capital moment ; I have just solved a nautical problem
which 'baa bothered me for a long time;" and, after giving the formula
and solution of his problem, he added: "How droll it is that I found it
at the bottom of this well of tallow ! No matter ! I am growing weary
of this trade: I have a longing to go to sea once more, and we shall
meet again."•

A sh<•rt timo later, and Garibaldi proceeded to Peru. The Italians,
Genoese,, and Nizzard:s, above nll, are very numerous at Lima; and some
who aro merchants and ship-owners, have very large establishments.
Others bt'P restaurants, cafe8, pastry shops, and grocers' ahops ; and at
the period of o.ur narrative, about one hundred emigrants were collected
there, who had fought in ltW.IJ with Garibaldi's free corps. All these
Italians were excited when they heard that their illustrious countryman
was about to land at Callao, a port connected with Lima by a railway.
A depul;ation proceeded i.n their name to receive Garibaldi on the mole,
and conducted him in triumph to Lima. The Gucrillcro still wore his
long hair and beard, a broad brimmed felt hat, and a abort maroon
tunic, fastened round the waist by meaua of a Ieathem girdle.
When the proceaaion pasted through the Eapaderos Street, it was

rzedbyGooglc