B----, took me all over the rock, the galleries, and certain fortifications.

A meeting of hounds near Algeciras was attended.

Thence by train to Granada to visit the marvellously lovely Alhambra, and of course to meet the King of the Gipsies; Ronda, romantic and picturesque; Cordova and its immense mosque and old Roman bridge; and so on to Madrid by a most comfortable and fast train; but the temperature all through Central Spain is extremely cold in winter.

The country is inhospitable-looking, and the natives seem to have abandoned their picturesque national dress.

One must now go to Mexico to see the cavalier in his gay and handsome costume.