To account for his having four persons in his train, we must explain that, besides Pedro, one other only was his own servant, the third was a native of galicia, of that hardy race called Gallegos, who come with willing hands, light, honest hearts, and empty pockets, to make their fortune in Portugal; and the one in question was returning to enjoy the fruits of his labour with his family, in respectable independence in his native land, now mounted on a stout mule, with his pockets well lined with gold.
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston
And proud of their own exploits, they had their own soldier poets who wrote songs about the regiment, to which they marched through Belgium and France and galicia.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
The Asturians expanded into Leon and thence over galicia, northern Portugal, Old and New Castile.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson