The passing of the Shereefian empire . x in Madrid, and who,in addition to possessing many other talents,was also one of the best swimmers I have everknowTi. We were soon in great difficulties, forthe road runs by the seashore the whole way fromMelilla to Restinga, and our heavily-laden waggonsank at times almost up to its axle in the softsand. We made better progress, however, whenwe drove the waggon in the sea itself, where thesand was harder. The day was very hot, and weall reached Pestinga extremely fatigued. Herewe had a brief halt, met the officers of the Spanishgarrison, and then presse
The passing of the Shereefian empire . x in Madrid, and who,in addition to possessing many other talents,was also one of the best swimmers I have everknowTi. We were soon in great difficulties, forthe road runs by the seashore the whole way fromMelilla to Restinga, and our heavily-laden waggonsank at times almost up to its axle in the softsand. We made better progress, however, whenwe drove the waggon in the sea itself, where thesand was harder. The day was very hot, and weall reached Pestinga extremely fatigued. Herewe had a brief halt, met the officers of the Spanishgarrison, and then pressed on the last six kilo-metres to Zoco del Arbaa, reaching the camp atabout 5 , with the waggon an hour behind arrival was totally unexpected, and we werestopped by the guard; but on presenting ourpasses were allowed to pass the entrenchments,and soon found ourselves amongst the officers ofthe Del Pey Pegiment. The Moors, as if to greetus on our arrival, immediately appeared in smallnumbers and commenced to fire on the 5- GENERAL AGUILERA. 409 The Schneider guns were taken outside, and wewatched some petty shooting which quickly droveoff the enemy. I then met Vallacerrato and Zar-agoza, who introduced me to Captain Prince deBourbon, who is the cousin of the present king,and a most charming- man, of whom I shall havemore to say later. Prince de Bourbon then intro-duced us to General Aguilera, who seemed some-what surprised at the sudden apparition of threetotal strangers at his camp; but on our showinghim our passes he at once became all smiles andaffability, welcomed us in the most hospitablemanner, ordered his chief of staff to give us asuitable site for our tent, and said we should askhim for anything we required. A little later ourwaggon rolled up, and we pitched our tent andmade ourselves comfortable for the night. Accord-ing to our invariable practice on campaigns,Colonel Lewis, Fortescue, and myself had broughta large stock of provisions and wines in orde
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