The Alhambra and the Kremlin: The South and the North of Europe
CHAPTER VII.
LA MANCHA.—ANDALUSIA.
Smoking.—Cigarettes at Dinner.—Taking Sanctuary.—Retort.—Tobacco Culture.—Cuban Monopoly.—Chewing tabooed.—Early Smoking.—Children and Ladies.—Tobacco Factory.—Cigareras.—Flavored Cigars.—Potash.—Soda.— Opium.—Intemperate Clergyman.—La Mancha.—Don Quixote.—Treeless Landscape.—Sheep.—Corn.—Primitive Ploughing.—Husbandry.— Primogeniture.—Lands of Church and Crown.—Agricultural Schools.— Periodicals.—Sierra Morena Mountains.—Cautious Engineer.—Manjibar.— Pickled Chicken.—Moving on.—Perfumes of Arabia.—Resting-place.— Transatlantic Indigestion.—Andalusia.—Ignorance and Crime.—Government Education.—Statistics.—Salamanca.—Influence of Climate.—Population.— The Aloe and Olive.—Oranges and Lemons.—Hills of Andalusia.—Sheep
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