and y.-t there has never in tlu- whole
course of Km ope;m history been a war
between Portugal and England. Tbe
animosity, para.lox ns it may seem, nil
grows out of alliances. It is said that
the flrsl 'treaty of amity and alliance'
between the two countries was mude
in the reign of Edward Ul. tho fnther
of the Black Prince, and .lohu of
Haunt. That was more limn BOO years
ago. John of tia unfa second wife was
n Spanish princess, and Ids daughter
by ber was the wife of John I. lng of
Portugal, and motlier of Prince Henry,
tho tirst European explo-< i ? f the At?
lantic
"So much is only what may be rend
in any history. How the feeling bout
the English grow up in Portugal ls a
matter of tradition, and the tradition ls
exclusively Portuguese because the
-h have never troubled themselves
about the matter. The Portuguese any
that from the end of th.- fourteenth
century I'nglish merchants began set?
tling at Lisbon, and ttiat they were
much too shrewd in business to bo pop?
ular willi the natives. Anyhow there
ls a Portuguese colloquialism In use to
this day by which a man who "does' an?
other in a business transaction ls said
to 'give him tho English palm.' That
phrase is supposed to allude to some
little trick of the English cloth mer?
chants in the days when cloth used to
be mci uire.l by the breadth of the
palm of tbe hand.
