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Transcriber Notes

• Obvious printer errors corrected.
• Variations in spelling, accents and hyphenation left as in the original.

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WITH A CAMERA

IN MAJORCA

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Majorcan Country Girls

Majorcan Country Girls.

WITH A CAMERA
IN MAJORCA

BY

MARGARET DESTE

AUTHOR OF THROUGH CORSICA WITH A CAMERA

Kennst Du das Land wo die Citronen blhn,

Im dunklen Laub die Gold-Orangen glhn,

Ein sanfter Wind vom blauen Himmel weht,

Die Myrte still und hoch der Lorbeer steht,

Kennst Du es wohl?

With Illustrations from Photographs

by Mrs. R. M. King

G. P. PUTNAMS SONS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

The Knickerbocker Press

1907

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(All rights reserved.)

Contents

	PAGE
PART I
Palma and its Immediate VicinityPorto PiBellverCastle of AlarRaxa
PART II
Our First Tour in the Island:FelanitxSantuiri CastleOratorio de San SalvadorPort of ManacrDragon CavesCaves of ArtaCap de Pera
Second Tour:AndraitxSan TelmoEstallenchsBaalbufr
Third Tour:ValldemsaMiramarSollrFornalutx
Fourth Tour:AlcudiaPollensaCastillo del ReyMonastery of LluchGorch BlauInca
PART III
Island of IvizaSanta EulaliaPhnician NecropolisSalt Works
PART IV
MinorcaPort MahonPrehistoric AltarsCiudadlaRock Dwellings

List of Illustrations

Majorcan Country Girls
View of Palma	Face p.
Signal Tower at Porto Pi
Puerta Santa Margarita
Puerta Santa Catalina
View from the Grand Hotel
Sentry Box on the Ramparts
Patio with Banana Clump
Street in Palma
Patio with Well
Patio in the Calle Zavella
Arab Baths
Door of Montesion Church
Cloisters of S. Francisco
Cloisters, Upper Corridor
Staircase of Private House
Street of the Almudaina
Lonja
Door of S. Francisco
Girl Wearing the Rebosillo
Ivizan Hound
Patio in Bellver Castle
In the Garden of Raxa
Curious Olive-Tree
Gate-Tower at Alar Castle
Curious Olive-Tree
Curious Olive-Tree
A Wind-wheel
Group of Windmills
A Windmill
Santuiri Castle, Interior
Santuiri Castle, Exterior
Oratorio of Our Lady of S. Salvador
View of Arta
Women Weeding a Wheatfield
Entrance to the Caves of Arta
Fisherman in Phrygian Cap
View of Estallenchs
Interior of House in Village
George Sands Rooms at Valldemsa
View on North Coast of Majorca
Street at the Port of Sollr
Palmer from the Holy Land
View of Sollr
Old House at Fornalutx
Courtyard at Alfdia
Roman Gate, Alcdia
Bay of Alcdia
Moorish Waterwheel
Bay of San Vicente
Ancient Costume of Majorca
Cock Fountain at Pollensa
Roman Bridge, Pollensa
Castillo del Rey
Gorch Blau
Pla de Cuba
View of the Plain around Inca
Town of Iviza
Bay of Iviza
A Purveyor of Drinking Water
Moorish Type of House
Ivizan Peasants
View of Santa Eullia
Porch of Church, S. Eullia
Phnician Tombs
Fortified Church of San Jorge
Salt Works, Iviza
Talayot of Torello, Minorca
Prehistoric Altar, Talto-de-Dalt
Our Galarta
A Wild Olive-Tree
Nau-de-Tudons
Altar of Torre Trencado
Pigs Palace and Prehistoric Pylon
Megalithic Dwelling
Rock-cut Dwellings, San Morell
Interior of Rock-cut Dwelling

AUTHORS NOTE

To those who are unacquainted with the Spanish language, the pronunciation of Majorcan names is such a stumbling block that the following phonetic rendering of some of those most frequently met with may be found useful:

Jaime= Ha-e-mayLonja= Loan-haAndraitx= An-dretschLluch= Lee-okSollr= Sole-yairIviza= Evess-aMahon= MhoneAubercuix= O-ber-cotshPuig (signifying Peak)= PotschBaalbufar= Ban-yal-boo-frFelanitx= Fay-la-netsch

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Map of Majorca

Map of Majorca

PART I

In the spring of 1906 we found ourselves with three months to devote to foreign travel, and after some deliberation we decided to spend them in exploring those Iles oublies of the MediterraneanMajorca, Minorca, and Ivizaand in ascertaining for ourselves whether they were worth visiting and what were the possibilities of a stay there.

Their names, it is true, lingered in our memories like some familiar echo from far-off schoolroom days, but with regard to all practical details we were extremely ignorant, and it was without knowing a soul in the islands or a soul who had ever been there, that we set out on the last day of January to visit the Balearicsthose homes of famous slingers.

A railway journey of twenty-two hours takes the traveller from Paris to Barcelona by way of Toulouse. The change from France to Spain is an abrupt one. After racing through flat lands of vine, through sand dunes and salt lagoons, one crosses the frontier into a dry place of red and orange hills, where stone villages stand bare and unshrinking in the strong sunlight, and here and there a palmsolitary outpost of the southwaves her dusty plumes; and the night falls suddenly upon a sky crystal clear, as the sun slips in glory behind the strong outline of the purple Pyrenees.

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An old writer has left it on record that the thing which chiefly repented him in his life was having gone anywhere by sea when he might have gone by land. Since it is decreed, however, that islands shall be reached by water, one subject of remorse was spared us as we boarded the steamship Miramar at half-past six on the evening of February 5th. And so great is the power of comparatives to cheer, that though the worst of sailors, we derived a certain happiness from the reflection that we had at any rate chosen the lesser evil in sailing from Barcelona instead of taking the twenty-four hour crossing from Marseilles.

Behold us then at dawn gliding into the Bay of Palma and gazing around us with that undefined expectancy that even in these prosaic days of travel tinges with romance the landing on an unknown shore.

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A lovely view of Palma

From the grounds round the Castle of Bellver a most lovely view of Palma is obtained through the pine-trees....

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