. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. Book I. SPAIN. 575. escape, are the subjects of admiration: at last, when the animal is completely covered with309 ^ wounds, the matador or skyer appears, and closes the scene. Tumultuous applause or hissing from thepopulace accompanies every part of this savage per-formance, according- to the respective merits of thebull or his assailants. The comparative excellenceof different matadores becomes often a party question,and the subject of keenly agitated discussion in th
. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. Book I. SPAIN. 575. escape, are the subjects of admiration: at last, when the animal is completely covered with309 ^ wounds, the matador or skyer appears, and closes the scene. Tumultuous applause or hissing from thepopulace accompanies every part of this savage per-formance, according- to the respective merits of thebull or his assailants. The comparative excellenceof different matadores becomes often a party question,and the subject of keenly agitated discussion in thecircles of Madrid. Wounds frequently, and deathsometimes, are the result to the actors in this exhi-bition, for whose benefit a priest witii holy water isin regular attendance. Not less is the fondness forthe dance, particularly under its national forms ofthe fandango {fig. 309.), tlie bolero, and the giuin-acho, performed with the Castanet in tiic hands; andThe Fandango. jj^g t_^^,Q foj-^^gj. especially Consisting chiefly in move- ments expressive of passion, but so little consonant to the rules of decorum, that tlie indul ?gence shown
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