Giuseppe Garibaldi: “Italy, henceforth mistress of her destinies, will only have to blame herself if she do not regularly progress in order…”

The sufferings which I endured after being unbound were indescribable: yet I did not complain.

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

Spurning every suggestion of fear, she came forward to the assistance of the tortured prisoner; and from that time I wanted nothing—thanks to my benefactress!

Although certainly not superstitious, often, amidst the most arduous scenes of my tumultuous life, when I have passed unharmed through the breakers of the ocean, or the hail-storms of battle, she has seemed present with me.