the neck, like beads, on a great iron chain, and all with manacles

on their hands. With them there came also two men on horseback and two

on foot; those on horseback with wheel-lock muskets, those on foot

with javelins and swords, and as soon as Sancho saw them he said:

"That is a chain of galley slaves, on the way to the galleys by

"How by force?" asked Don Quixote; "is it possible that the king

"I do not say that," answered Sancho, "but that these are people

condemned for their crimes to serve by force in the king's galleys."