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Separated from his shipmates and dragged back through the woods and sand dunes to the village of the king 's grandson , Mevarrow , he began eight years of captivity as the man 's personal slave . The people of fashion in Sicily are clothed in silks made in other countries , from the materials which their own produces . That industry , therefore , which aims at something more than necessary subsistence , was established in cities long before it was commonly practised by the occupiers of land in the country . Order and good government , and along with them the liberty and security of individuals , were , in this manner , established in cities at a time when the occupiers of land in the country were exposed to every sort of violence . But how servile soever may have been originally the condition of the inhabitants of the towns , it appears evidently that they arrived at liberty and independency much earlier than the occupiers of land in the country . From there we began working on the ideas that turned us into fighters of tyranny in our country , a tyranny which committed many crimes that led to the shedding of so much blood . If , especially after the Rome Congress , the party as a whole had been enabled to know the situation of our international relations , it would probably not now be in the conditions of confusion in which it finds itself . The people to whom it is granted as a privilege that they might give away their own daughters in marriage without the consent of their lord , that upon their death their own children , and not their lord , should succeed to their goods , and that they might dispose of their own effects by will , must , before those grants , have been either altogether or very nearly in the same state of villanage with the occupiers of land in the country .