England has always done us the honour to utilize, for her personal service, the fleur-de-lis.
The Comprachicos, allowing for the shade which divides a trade from a fanaticism, were analogous to the Stranglers of India.

They lived among themselves in gangs, and to facilitate their progress, affected somewhat of the merry-andrew.

They encamped here and there, but they were grave and religious, bearing no affinity to other nomads, and incapable of theft.

The people for a long time wrongly confounded them with the Moors of Spain and the Moors of China.

The Moors of Spain were coiners, the Moors of China were thieves.