. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. r country. VIII. The Return to Spain and the Final Triumph OF France The Kings of Aragonwere alive to these facts,and at first did their bestto pursue the policy ofMajorca so far as it wasconsistent with the unityof the Catalan race. Littleby little the Roussillon be-came almost entirely as-similated with Catalonia,in its laws, its customs,and its usages. Its tradecontinued greatly to ex-pand. Its cloth, in par-ticular, was renowned forits excellence. The acqui-sitions of the Kings ofAragon in Italy and
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. r country. VIII. The Return to Spain and the Final Triumph OF France The Kings of Aragonwere alive to these facts,and at first did their bestto pursue the policy ofMajorca so far as it wasconsistent with the unityof the Catalan race. Littleby little the Roussillon be-came almost entirely as-similated with Catalonia,in its laws, its customs,and its usages. Its tradecontinued greatly to ex-pand. Its cloth, in par-ticular, was renowned forits excellence. The acqui-sitions of the Kings ofAragon in Italy and Sicilynecessitated a maritimedevelopment, and the warsof the Catalans in Greece and the Black Sea had giventhem an exceptional knowledge of geography. The AtlasCatalan, now in the National Library at Paris, was madein 1374, and in 1415 Prince Henry of Portugal sought outthe learned Catalan Jacques at Majorca to appoint himdirector of his famous school of navigation at , St. Laurent, and Canet, were frequented was a thriving commercial city, and the Rous-. WOOD-GATHERERS 58 TRAVELS IN THE PYRENEES sillon ships visited Spain, France, Flanders, Italy, Sardinia,Sicily, Cyprus, and Rhodes, and the ports of NorthernAfrica, Egypt, and Asia Minor. Its towns continued toenjoy remarkable freedom and civic rights, and irrigationenriched the agriculture of the country, as it does to thisday. Traffic and war introduced into the country largenumbers of slaves of all shades of colour. Saracens, Moors,Turks, Circassians, Tartars, Egyptians, and Russians, toiledin the Catalan fields and cities, and their blood, withthe easy licence of the times and of a Southern people,became gradually mingled with that of their this period the Catalans this side of thePyrenees looked to their own defence, a proud, independent,and warlike, but also a factious and quarrelsome, the fall of Constantinople in 1453, 1,500 Catalans, theonly representatives
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