Category: Travel Writing

Romantic Spain: A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II)

A Tidy City--A Sacred Corpse--Remarkable Features of Puerto--A Calesa--Lady Blanche's Castle--A Typical English Engineer--British Enterprise--"Success to the Cadiz Waterworks!"--Visit to a Bodega--Wine and Women--The Coming Man--A Strike 1-18

Chapters

1. Chapter 1

A Tidy City--A Sacred Corpse--Remarkable Features of Puerto--A Calesa--Lady Blanche's Castle--A Typical English Engineer--British Enterprise--"Success to the Cadiz Waterworks!"-...

2. Chapter 2

The Charms of Cadiz--Seville-by-the-Sea--Cervantes--Daughters of Eve--The Ladies who Prayed and the Women who Didn't--Fasting Monks--Notice to Quit on the Nuns--The Rival Proces...

3. Chapter 3

4. Chapter 4

Gabriel Tar--A Hard Nut to Crack--In the Cemetery--An Old Tipperary Soldier--Marks of the Broad Arrow--The "Scorpions"--The Jaunting-Cars--Amusements on the Rock--Mrs. Damages'...

5. Chapter 5

From Pillar to Pillar--Historic Souvenirs--Off to Africa--The Sweetly Pretty Albert--Gibraltar by Moonlight--The Chain-Gang--Across the Strait--A Difficult Landing--Albert is Hu...

6. Chapter 6

A Pattern Despotism--Some Moorish Peculiarities--A Hell upon Earth--Fighting for Bread--An Air-Bath--Surprises of Tangier--On Slavery--The Writer's Idea of a Moorish Squire--The...

7. Chapter 7

Back to Gibraltar--The Parting with Albert--The Tongue of Scandal--Voyage to Malaga--"No Police, no Anything"--Federalism Triumphant--Madrid _in Statu Quo_--Orense--Progress of...

8. Chapter 8

On the Wing--Ordered to the Carlist Headquarters--Another _Petit Paris_--Carlists from Cork--How Leader was Wounded--Beating-up for an Anglo-Irish Legion--Pontifical Zouaves--A...

9. Chapter 9

The Cura of Vera--Fueros of the Basques--Carlist Discipline--Fate of the _San Margarita_--The Squadron of Vigilance--How a Capture was Effected--The Sea-Rovers in the Dungeon--V...

10. Chapter 10

Belcha's Brigands--Pale-Red Republicans--The Hyena--More about the _San Margarita_--Arrival of a Republican Column--The Jaunt to Los Pasages--A Sweet Surprise--"The Prettiest Gi...

11. Chapter 11

An Audible Battle--"Great Cry and Little Wool"--A Carlist Court Newsman--The Religious War--The Siege of Oyarzun--Madrid Rebels--"The Money of Judas"--A Manifesto from Don Carlo...

12. Chapter 12

Barbarossa--Royalist-Republicans--Squaring a Girl--At Irun--"Your Papers?"--The Barber's Shop--A Carlist Spy--An Old Chum--The Alarm--A Breach of Neutrality--Under Fire--Caught...

13. Chapter 13

Nearing the End--Firing on the Red Cross--Perpetuity of War--Artistic Hypocrites--The Jubilee Year--The Conflicts of a Peaceful Reign--Major Russell--Quick Promotion--The Foreig...

14. Chapter 14

PUERTO de Santa Maria has the name of being the neatest and tidiest city in Spain, and neatness and tidiness are such dear homely virtues, I thought I could not do better than h...

15. Chapter 15

The Charms of Cadiz--Seville-by-the-Sea--Cervantes-Daughters of Eve--The Ladies who Prayed and the Women who Didn't--Fasting Monks--Notice to Quit on the Nuns--The Rival Process...

16. Chapter 16

TOWARDS the close of February, a grave official report was published in the _Gaceta_ of Madrid, announcing that an engagement had been fought with the Carlists and a victory sco...

17. Chapter 17

Gabriel Tar--A Hard Nut to Crack--In the Cemetery--An Old Tipperary Soldier--Marks of the Broad Arrow--The "Scorpions"--The Jaunting-Cars--Amusements on the Bock--Mrs. Damages'...

18. Chapter 18

From Pillar to Pillar--Historic Souvenirs--Off to Africa--The Sweetly Pretty Albert--Gibraltar by Moonlight--The Chain-Gang--Across the Strait--A Difficult Landing--Albert is Hu...

19. Chapter 19

A Pattern Despotism--Some Moorish Peculiarities--A Hell upon Earth--Fighting for Bread--An Air-Bath--Surprises of Tangier--On Slavery--The Writer's Idea of a Moorish Squire--The...

20. Chapter 20

Back to Gibraltar--The Parting with Albert--The Tongue of Scandal--Voyage to Malaga--"No Police, no Anything"--Federalism Triumphant--Madrid _in Statu Quo_--Orense--Progress of...

21. Chapter 21

On the Wing--Ordered to the Carlist Headquarters--Another _Petit Paris_--Carlists from Cork--How Leader was Wounded--Beating-up for an Anglo-Irish Legion--Pontifical Zouaves--A...

22. Chapter 22

The Cura of Vera--Fueros of the Basques--Carlist Discipline--Fate of the _San Margarita_--The Squadron of Vigilance--How a Capture was Effected--The Sea-Rovers in the Dungeon--V...

23. Chapter 23

Belcha's Brigands--Pale-Red Republicans--The Hyena--More about the _San Margarita_--Arrival of a Republican Column--The Jaunt to Los Pasages--A Sweet Surprise--"The Prettiest Gi...

24. Chapter 24

An Audible Battle--"Great Cry and Little Wool"--A Carlist Court Newsman--A Religious War--The Siege of Oyarzun--Madrid Rebels--"The Money of Judas"--A Manifesto from Don Carlos-...

25. Chapter 25

Barbarossa--Royalist-Republicans--Squaring a Girl--At Iron--"Your Papers?"--The Barber's Shop--A Carlist Spy--An Old Chum--The Alarm--A Breach of Neutrality--Under Fire--Caught...

26. Chapter 26

Nearing the End--Firing on the Red Cross--Perpetuity of War--Artistic Hypocrites--The Jubilee Year--The Conflicts of a Peaceful Reign--Major Russell--Quick Promotion--The Foreig...