Identifier: ramblesinsunnysp00ober (find matches)
Title: Rambles in sunny Spain
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Ober, Frederick A(lbion), 1849- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ete withoutthe escopeteros, a name given to two gendarmes charged with the pro-tection of the travellers in case of attack, and who, seated on the top ofthe coach, commanded the route. Throughout the entire journey the mayoral and zagal keep shout-ing to the mules, addressing them each by name, sometimes infriendly, sometimes in threatening tones, according to circumstances,in this style: Colonel, on arriving I will make me a cap of your skin.Night does not stop the discordant sounds, and even when the mayoralhad succumbed to sleep one heard him murmuring: Capitanaaa . . .comisariooo . . . raa . . . puliaaa . . . bandolero . . . arre carbon-eraaa, etc., until he was quite overcome, when he was ably supportedby the zagal The diligence offers the most aristocratic mode of travelling, asit is only found on the kings highways. More correctly, its journeyshave become extremely select, for since railways have furrowed Spain,this superannuated vehicle has almost entirely disappeared. Besides
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A FAMILY PARTY. BEYOND THE PYRENEES. 41 the inconvenience we have pointed out, there is the constant danger ofthe coach upsetting; at such times the mayoral escapes by paying afine of about sixty francs. Twice in our travels we were upset withoutsuffering any serious inconvenience ; but passengers are not always sofortunate. When travelling from Barcelona to Valencia we passed afrightful ravine, into which a diligence had been precipitated, carryingin its fall both travellers and horses. Having dropped some hints as to the mode of travel in Spain, itmay be as well to mention the seasons in which it is best to travel.There is such diversity of surface and climate, that the visitor may suithimself as to either in whatever season he may arrive. As we generally seek a southern climate in order to get rid of therigors of winter, this season is, all things considered, the best in whichto visit the southern part of Spain. In autumn, the northern andwestern portions, working down toward Andal

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