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OF SPAIN
GALICIA'S GOLDEN SANDS
OF SPAIN
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY MARTIN HUME
LINE FROM PICTURES BY
FRANK H. MASON, R.B.A.
AND WITH NUMEROUS
REPRODUCTIONS
FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
JAMES POTT & CO.
LONDON: EVELEIGH NASH
1910
Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London
Introduction |
CHAPTER I Galicia and Its People |
The Real Galicia : The Hundred Maidens : The Glory of the North-West : Granite Hills : Gallegans and their Lives : Pigeon-cots and Maize-barns : The Night-watchman's Chant : Civil Guards and Constables : A Modest Breakfast : Eating and drinking : The Waiter as a Gentleman : Enterprise and Open-air Life : The Blessed "To-morrow" : Cigarettes : The Unexpected : Photography : Wine and a Bibber : Across the Biscay |
CHAPTER II Vigo Bay and Hills |
Sun-bound : Sharp Contrasts : Devil-fish and Ink-fish : Sardines : A Spanish Infant : Vigo's Enterprise : The Lazaretto : Treasure-ships : A Grandee's Home : A Fishing-town : Memento mori : Handling Catches : Clubs and Warships : A Russian Funeral : Emigrants : A Valley Town : The Press and a Distributor : Borrow's Vigo |
CHAPTER III Spain's Jerusalem |
Galicia's Patron Saint : Pilgrims and Pestilence : A Holy City : A Monumental History : Noisy Students : The Fascination of the Cathedral : Precious Relics : A Wealth of Silver : The Compostela : St. James's Sepulchre : The Gate of Glory : The Mighty Censer : Religious Festivals : Our Lady of the Rosary : St. James's Day Festivities : The Way of Blood and Tears : Medival Night : From Pilgrims' Hill |
CHAPTER IV Things Seen |
More Contrasts : Bewildering Baedeker : A Galician Vineyard : Sabbath Peace : Wayside Inns : Security of Travel : Brawny Brigands : A Sonorous Tongue |
CHAPTER V The Atlantic Coast and the Frontier |
Romantic Scenery : A Blighted Town : British Enterprise : The Napoleonic Wars : A Quaint Old Place : Galicia's Fjords : A Remarkable Lighthouse : Down to Portugal : Friendly Sentries : The Glories of the Mio : Orense and its Famous Bridge |
CHAPTER VI Locomotion |
The Diligence : Railways : Galicia's Rolling-stock : The Solemnity of Journeying by Train : Motor-cars and Motor-buses : Beauty in the Saddle : Shocks in Travelling : "Drummers" of the North-West : Cycles and a Freak |
CHAPTER VII Mondariz |
An Alluring Hotel : Beneficent Waters : A Noble Building : Pine Hills and Trout-streams : A Splendid Pump-room : The Logan of Arcos : Sobroso's Ruins : Creaking Bullock-carts : Peaceful Prospects |
CHAPTER VIII Galicia's Burden-bearers |
The Woman with the Coffin : Women and Weights : Wages and Rent : My Pretty Maid : Hairdressing : Universal Washing : A Galician Funeral |
CHAPTER IX Arosa Bay and La Toja |
A Favourite Anchorage for British Warships : Roman Remains : Religious Prisoners : Cortegada and the King of Spain : An Attractive Workhouse : Borrow and the Bible : An Arcaded Town : Columbus and his Ships : The Haunt of the Wolf : The Island of La Toja : A Wonderful Cure : Golf |
CHAPTER X Corunna and its Hero |
The Most Happy and Invincible Armada : Modern Corunna : The Miradores : Wellington, Napoleon, and the Gallegans : The Peninsular War : The Tragedy of Moore's Retreat to Corunna : A Butchered Rearguard : Marvellous Marching : The Last Stand : Moore's Death : His Burial on Corunna's Ramparts |
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