Rambles in sunny Spain . nza .Chapel in the Mosque at Cordova Valencian Laborer Interior of the Mosque at Cordova . A Baratero On the Way to the Fair Hall of the Ambassadors, Seville . . The Giralda, Seville Interior of the Cathedral. Seville . .Moorish Arches of the Alcazar, Seville . The Picador The Espada Play of the Cape The Cachetero Cadiz The Defeat of the Armada Trafalgar Bay Page[01 [03[07 11 15 23 27 29 33[37141 4543[49 53 58 [6165 169 73 77 [80 81 83187 9i95 Vlll ILLUSTRATIONS. Page The Rock of Gibraltar 197 Sketch in Gibraltar 201 Malaga 203 A Sketch in Malaga 207 Street Musicians 2
Rambles in sunny Spain . nza .Chapel in the Mosque at Cordova Valencian Laborer Interior of the Mosque at Cordova . A Baratero On the Way to the Fair Hall of the Ambassadors, Seville . . The Giralda, Seville Interior of the Cathedral. Seville . .Moorish Arches of the Alcazar, Seville . The Picador The Espada Play of the Cape The Cachetero Cadiz The Defeat of the Armada Trafalgar Bay Page[01 [03[07 11 15 23 27 29 33[37141 4543[49 53 58 [6165 169 73 77 [80 81 83187 9i95 Vlll ILLUSTRATIONS. Page The Rock of Gibraltar 197 Sketch in Gibraltar 201 Malaga 203 A Sketch in Malaga 207 Street Musicians 210 Columbus 211 Peasant 214 Queen Isabella 215 Columbus put in Irons 216 On Muleback 220 Page Balconies of Granada 225 A Family of Mendicants 229 Chatto Diaz 231 The Bandit Pedro 234 Loungers 238 The Banks of the Guadalquivir . . 239 Tomb of Ferdinand and Isabella . . 243 Fountain in the Alhambra 247 Gate of Justice, Alhambra 250 General View of the Alhambra . 251 RAMBLES IN SUNNY SPAIN. Rambles in Sunny CHAPTER I. SOMETHING PRELIMINARY. HEN one has the world to choose from, but only alimited time for travel, he is apt to look aboutsharply for a country that will yield the most inreturn for his outlay. This was the feeling that actuated us in thechoice of Spain. We felt that we should get greater returns for oursummers journey than from any other equal portion of the the first place, our little travels hitherto taken had in a measureprepared us for Spain. In Florida we had met with Spanish archi-tecture (especially in St. Augustine) and Spanish names of rivers,lakes, and towns, while the most fascinating portion of Floridas his-tory is that which tells of the adventures of the steel-clad cavaliersof De Soto and De Narvaez. If in the land of the Everglades we hadbeen led to think upon Spain as the mother-country, in the WestIndies again everything still pointed back to that land of the oliveand the vine, that home of Ponce de Leon, Cortez, and Columbus. So it wa
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