to see her disposed in marriage, and she doubted not, but that if the Indian Cavalier, Don Juhan de Peralto, being a person so well descended, and so wealthy, should proffer himself for a Son-in-law, he would be preferr'd before all others, and she more earnestly press'd by her Father to accept of him than she had been.The next day after the Serenade, whereof the Marquess Fabiano and Don Sancho had had their part, Dorothea took occasion to confer notes with her Sister, concerning Don Juhan, and his court∣ship, and told her, that she could not brook the gallantries of that conceited Indian, and thought it the strangest thing in the world, he should make such publick demonstrations of his love to her, be∣fore he had made any overtures thereof of her Father. 'Tis such a kind of procedure, says Fe∣liciana to her, as I should never approve of, and if your case were mine, I should give him such an entertainment, upon the first opportunity that presented it self, as might immediately dash all the hopes, he had conceiv'd of ever pleasing you. For my own part, continu'd she, I could never fancy his person; he has not that delicacy, and insinuation of carriage, which is acquirable one∣ly at Court, and the vast expences he is at here in Sevil, argue not so much the nobleness of his disposition, as the extravagant and salvage hu∣mour of that yet unciviliz'd part of the world whence he came. It is observ'd, that those parts of the world which suply us with gold and silver, are most barren as to the other productions of nature; so those people that inhabit them, think they need no other recommendation, than what 0