Giuseppe Garibaldi: “The people are wild with joy at their deliverance.”

How everything is embellished by the feelings of youth, and how beautiful appeared, to my ardent eyes, the bark in which I was to navigate the Mediterranean, when I stepped on board as a sailor for the first time!

That battle, with so many dangers, and with so brilliant a result, gave much confidence to our troops, and to the inhabitants of that coast, who had been for a long time exposed to the inroads of that adroit and enterprising enemy…

She will feel the want of them in the day when she shall rise to drive the ravens from the corpses which they devour.

Although I was quite young and small, I jumped down and saved her life; and my success afforded me the highest pleasure.