From the east you may ride a horse towards it, and lose your way.

From the west you must approach by boat.

So remote and unvisited is this region that the women in these high villages, their homes cut out of the actual brown rock, still cover their faces with the Moorish veil.
There are no roads, but Jose Medina was never deterred by the lack of roads.

His business, indeed, was a shy one, and led him to prefer wild country.

A high police official in one great town said of him: "For endurance and activity there is no one like Jose Medina between the sea and the Pyrenees.