BY
AUTHOR OF
"LEAVES FROM THE LIFE OF A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,"
"AN IRON-BOUND CITY," ETC.
"Oh, lovely Spain! renowned, romantic land!"
Childe Harold.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
WARD AND DOWNEY,
12, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C.
1887.
[All Rights Reserved.]
| CHAPTER I. | |
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| A Tidy City—A Sacred Corpse—Remarkable Featuresof Puerto—A Calesa—Lady Blanche's Castle—ATypical English Engineer—British Enterprise—"Successto the Cadiz Waterworks!"—Visit to aBodega—Wine and Women—The Coming Man—AStrike | 1-18 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| The Charms of Cadiz—Seville-by-the-Sea—Cervantes—Daughtersof Eve—The Ladies who Prayed andthe Women who Didn't—Fasting Monks—Notice toQuit on the Nuns—The Rival Processions—Guttinga Church—A Disorganized Garrison—Taking it Easy—TheMysterious "Mr. Crabapple"—The SteamerMurillo—An Unsentimental Navvy—BandagedJustice—Tricky Ship-Owning—Painting BlackWhite | 19-41 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Expansion of Carlism—A Pseudo-Democracy—HistoricLand and Water Marks—An Impudent Stowaway—SpanishRespect for Providence—A FatalSignal—Playing with Fire—Across the Bay—Farewellto Andalusia—British Spain | 42-50 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Gabriel Tar—A Hard Nut to Crack—In the Cemetery—AnOld Tipperary Soldier—Marks of the BroadArrow—The "Scorpions"—The Jaunting-Cars—Amusementson the Rock—Mrs. Damages' Complaint—TheBay, the Alameda, and Tarifa—Howto Learn Spanish—Types of the British Officer—TheWily Ben Solomon—A Word for the Subaltern—SunsetGun—The Sameness of Sutlersville | 51-75 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| From Pillar to Pillar—Historic Souvenirs—Off toAfrica—The Sweetly Pretty Albert—Gibraltar byMoonlight—The Chain-Gang—Across the Strait—ADifficult Landing—Albert is Hurt—"Fat Mahomet"—TheCalendar of the Centuries Put Back—Tangier:the People, the Streets, the Bazaar—Our Hotel—AColoured Gentleman—Seeing the Sights—LocalMemoranda—Jewish Disabilities—Peep at a PhotographicAlbum—The Writer's Notions on HaremLife | 76-102 |