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SICILY AND MALTA. 77
and declared we were the most honorabili
Signori he had ever met with, and that if
we pleased, he himself mould have the
honour of attending us, and would chastise
any person that mould dare take the wall
of us, or injure us in the smallest trisse.
We thanked him for his zeal, (hewing him
we had swords of our own. On which,
bowing respecTfully, he retired.
I can now, with more assurance, give
you some account of the conversation I had
with Signior M—, who as I said appears to
be a very intelligent man, and has residtd
here for these many years.
He says, that in some circumstances these
banditti are the most respe&able people of
the issand; and have by much the highest
and most romantic notions of what they
call their point of honour. That, how-
ever criminal they may be with regard to
society in general; yet, with rcspect to one
another,
and declared we were the most honorabili
Signori he had ever met with, and that if
we pleased, he himself mould have the
honour of attending us, and would chastise
any person that mould dare take the wall
of us, or injure us in the smallest trisse.
We thanked him for his zeal, (hewing him
we had swords of our own. On which,
bowing respecTfully, he retired.
I can now, with more assurance, give
you some account of the conversation I had
with Signior M—, who as I said appears to
be a very intelligent man, and has residtd
here for these many years.
He says, that in some circumstances these
banditti are the most respe&able people of
the issand; and have by much the highest
and most romantic notions of what they
call their point of honour. That, how-
ever criminal they may be with regard to
society in general; yet, with rcspect to one
another,