The Life of General Garibaldi / Translated from his private papers; with the history of his splendid exploits in Rome, Lombardy, Sicily and Naples, to the present time.

by Giuseppe Garibaldi

"G. Sirtori, Chief of the Staff."

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CHAPTER XIII.

"Two seas and the Alps shall Italy bound,

The oppressors no more in our land shall be found

The banner of freedom we'll spread to the air,

And from Apennines rush in a chariot of fire."

Garibaldi's National Hymn.

THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE PROSPECT—APPREHENSIONS—GARIBALDI'S MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE—THE EXPEDITION PREPARED IN SARDINIA—HIS CHANGE OF PLANS—SAILS FROM GIARDINI, AND LANDS AT REGGIO.