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Juan of Austria, the hero of Christendom, rode with only two companions, a Spanish groom, and his secretary, Juan de Escovedo, out of the town of Messina, through groves of oak and olive, and vineyards heavy with grapes, and trees of Barbary fig rising above the corn.
It was evening and the air was alive with delicate sounds--goat bells, the songs of the shepherds, the twitter of birds, the gurgle of a little stream, and the flutter of the grey olive leaves in the wind that blew off a sea like jasper.