Candide had brought with him from Cadiz such a footman as one often meets with on the coasts of Spain and in the colonies. He was the fourth part of a Spaniard, of a mongrel breed, and born in Tucuman. He had successively gone through the profession of a singing boy, sexton, sailor, monk, peddler, soldier, and lackey.
Se había traído consigo Candido de Cadiz uncriado corno se encuentran muchos en los puertos de mar de España, que era un quarteron, hijo de un mestizo de Tucuman, y que habia sido monaguillo, sacristan, marinero, metedor, soldado y lacayo.