. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . ational tastewas too deeply implanted in the breasts of a warlike andpowerful nobility, whom she was too prudent to offend. Ina letter to her Father Confessor in 1493, she declares herintention never again to witness a corrida, and adds:— Y no digo defenderlos (esto es prohibirlos) porque estono era para mi a solas—which is to say, that her will,which could accomplish the expulsion of the Moor and theJew, was powerless to uproot the bull-fight. * On this point, Sanchez de Nieva writes ( El Toreo, publ
. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . ational tastewas too deeply implanted in the breasts of a warlike andpowerful nobility, whom she was too prudent to offend. Ina letter to her Father Confessor in 1493, she declares herintention never again to witness a corrida, and adds:— Y no digo defenderlos (esto es prohibirlos) porque estono era para mi a solas—which is to say, that her will,which could accomplish the expulsion of the Moor and theJew, was powerless to uproot the bull-fight. * On this point, Sanchez de Nieva writes ( El Toreo, publishedat Madrid, 1879) :— The Arabs were mi;eh given to bull-fighting,and highly skilled in the Udia, whether mounted or on foot. It must,however, be borne m mind that these encounters took place in Spain,and that the so-called Arabs were in reality Spaniards—the Moorishdomination having then lasted for seven centiiries. It may bestated, without fear of error, that nearly all the inhabitants of thiscountry, after the first two centuries, were, though born in Spain,Arabs in I #.
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