Chapter 13

BIARRITZ.

A warm ride--Bayonne--A "Noah's ark" landscape-- Amusements--Bathing--Shells--Cavillers--A canine feat--The pier and rocks--A restless sea--"The Three Cormorants"--Dragon's-mouth Rock--To the lighthouse--Maiden-hair ferns--Mrs. Blunt's adventure--The drive round the lakes--_Osmunda regalis_ ferns--The pine-woods near the bar--St. Etienne and the Guards' cemetery--Croix de Mouguère--Cambo and the Pas de Roland--Anemones--A fat couple--A French scholar--Hendaye-- Fuenterabia--A quaint old-world town--The Bidassoa--Pasages--San Sebastien--The Citadol and graves--The "Silent Sisters"--Raised prices--Parasols and spectacles