. Wild Spain (Espan?a agreste): records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun; natural history and exploration. Natural history; Hunting; Game and game-birds. ANDALUCIA AND HER MOUNTAIN-BARRIERS. 5 water of the Peninsula, with the gay and careless Andaluz who spurns and derides him : or the fiery temperament of aristocratic Castile and Navarre with the commercial instincts of Catalonia and the north-east. Probably the most perfect example of natural nobility is afforded by the peasant proprietor of pastoral Leon ; then there is a pelt- clad, root-grubbing homo sylvestris peculiar to Estremenian wi
. Wild Spain (Espan?a agreste): records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun; natural history and exploration. Natural history; Hunting; Game and game-birds. ANDALUCIA AND HER MOUNTAIN-BARRIERS. 5 water of the Peninsula, with the gay and careless Andaluz who spurns and derides him : or the fiery temperament of aristocratic Castile and Navarre with the commercial instincts of Catalonia and the north-east. Probably the most perfect example of natural nobility is afforded by the peasant proprietor of pastoral Leon ; then there is a pelt- clad, root-grubbing homo sylvestris peculiar to Estremenian wilds, who awaits attention of ethnologists. There are the Basques of Biscay—Tartar-sprung or Turanian, Finnic or surviving aborigines, let philologists decide; at any rate, a race by themselves, distinct in dress and habit, in. BASQUE PEASANT. laws and language, from all the rest. Beserved, but cour- teous and reliable, the Basques are dangerously ready for their much-prized fusros to plunge their country in civil war.*' The differences which to-day distinguish these allied races are as deep and defined as those which stand * The fueros of the Basques comprise certain franchises and privi- leges granted or upheld by ancient charters, and are their undoubted right, though sought to be ignored by Madrid statesmen. It was largely through his promises to re-establish their fueros, that Don Carlos enlisted the sympathy and support of the Basque provinces. The subject, however, is an intricate one, and is only alluded to inci- Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929; Buck, Walter John. London, Gurney and Jackson
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