_ 213 _ than erecting a statue to the memory of his uncle, Afonso de Albuquerque, who had founded it. He ordered the stone to be cut in Goa and sculptured with the Lion. The workmanship was so perfect that it seemed that only spirit and movement lacked for the statue to come alive. It had the grave and venerable look with which kings command respect, his right hand on the hilt of his sword and a globe in his left hand. In this well known image of the Kings of Portugal he is thus promising to defend the land which he conquered. Matias de Albuquerque placed the statue in the fortress at Ormuz with the same intention with which the ancient Romans placed statues in their passageway on the Capitol in Rome: as long as they were there, it was felt that the Empire would last. With the same end in mind did Ptolemy place the body of Alexander in the pyramids in Egypt, believing according to Chaldean tradition that where the bones remained, the sceptre would be preserved for ever. Shadows, images and the relics of brave young men retain so much strength that, with this secret energy, they preserve and perpetuate the reputation they won with the sword. Local people say that the feathers of the dead eagle have the power to consume those of other birds and the skin of the wolf that of sheep. Then, there was that proud German who, when he was about to die, ordered the beating of a
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