nnually, were exported
to the United States. On the whole, we were agreeably disappointed at
the thrifty and business-like aspect of the city. There are no
picture-galleries or art treasures to examine; but the people of new
localities are always an interesting study, and the shops were decidedly
the best we had seen since we left America. There is a grand cathedral,
which is considered almost the only place worth exhibiting to strangers.
It is of rather modern date, having been commenced in 1528, and is of
mixed style, its facade constituting almost its only feature of
remarkable beauty.

The old Moorish castle, crowning the seaward heights, has been converted
into a modern fortress, and is well worth visiting for the superb view
to be obtained from the battlements. Few people now come to Malaga
except for a special purpose. In a sanitary point of view, as a resort
for consumptives, it has long enjoyed a reputation which it certainly
does not merit to-day, whatever it may have done in the past. First, it
is much too cold and damp for delicate lungs. Again, it has not one
comfort or social attraction to interest the visitor in search of
health. Moreover, its sewerage is shamefully defective. Indeed, in the
older parts of the town, the surface gutters receive and convey all the
accumulated filth, so that the atmosphere is most unfavorably
influenced. The published mortuary statistics have been unfairly given,
as the mortality is larger in percentage than in any other part of
Spain, which, as a rule, is far from possessing a healthy climate. We
doubt if physicians any longer advise their patients to resort thither,
certainly they would not do so if possessed of personal experience of
the place.

The present population is a little over a hundred and twenty thousand,
and is made up of a community of more than average respectability,
though it would appear that there is an unreasonable percentage of
beggars to be met with. In and about the cathedral of Santa Barbara the
visitor finds this nuisance extremely annoying. Malaga has one of the
largest bull-rings to be found in Spain. We were shown all over its
various offices with evident pride on the part of the custodian. All
contingencies, are here provided for. One apartment, with the necessary
appliances, is arranged as a surgery, so that if the picadors, chulos,
or matadores (bull-fighters) be any of them seriously wounded, the
surgeon, who is always in attendance, can at