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the Cemetery--An Old Tipperary Soldier--Marks of the Broad Arrow--The "Scorpions"--The Jaunting-Cars--Amusements on the Rock--Mrs. Damages' Complaint--The Bay, the Alameda, and Tarifa--How to Learn Spanish--Types of the British Officer--The Wily Ben Solomon--A Word for the Subaltern--Sunset Gun--The Sameness of Sutlersville 51-75 CHAPTER V. From Pillar to Pillar--Historic Souvenirs--Off to Africa--The Sweetly Pretty Albert--Gibraltar by Moonlight--The Chain-Gang--Across the Strait--A Difficult Landing--Albert is Hurt--"Fat Mahomet"--The Calendar of the Centuries Put Back--Tangier: the People, the Streets, the Bazaar--Our Hotel--A Coloured Gentleman--Seeing the Sights--Local Memoranda--Jewish Disabilities--Peep at a Photographic Album--The Writer's Notions on Harem Life 76-102 CHAPTER VI. A Pattern Despotism--Some Moorish Peculiarities--A Hell upon Earth--Fighting for Bread--An Air-Bath--Surprises of Tangier--On Slavery--The Writer's Idea of a Moorish Squire--The Ladder of Knowledge--Gulping Forbidden Liquor--Division of Time--Singular Customs--The Shereef of Wazan--The Christian who Captivated the Moor--The Interview--Moslem Patronage of Spain--A Slap for England--A Vision of Beauty--An English Desdemona: Her Plaint--One for the Newspaper Men--The Ladies' Battle--Farewell--The English Lady's Maid--Albert is Indisposed--The Writer Sums up on Morocco 103-135 CHAPTER VII. Back to Gibraltar--The Parting with Albert--The Tongue of Scandal--Voyage to Malaga--"No Police, no Anything"--Federalism Triumphant--Madrid _in Statu Quo_--Orense--Progress of the Royalists--On the Road Home--In the Insurgent Country--Stopped by the Carlists--An Angry Passenger is Silenced 136-151 CHAPTER VIII. On the Wing--Ordered to the Carlist Headquarters--Another _Petit Paris_--Carlists from Cork--How Leader was Wounded--Beating-up for an Anglo-Irish Legion--Pontifical Zouaves--A Bad Lot--Oddities of Carlism--Santa Cruz Again--Running a Cargo--On Board a Carlist Privateer--A Descendant of Kings--"Oh, for an Armstrong Twenty-Four Pounder!"--Crossing the Border--A Remarkable Guide--Mountain Scenery--In Navarre--Challenged at Vera--Our Billet with the Parish Priest--The Sad Story of an Irish Volunteer--Dialogue with Don Carlos--The Happy Valley--Bugle-Blasts--T
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