Wild Spain records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration (1893) (14565736227)

Identifier: wildspainrecords00chaprich (find matches)
Title: Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929 Buck, Walter John
Subjects: Hunting -- Spain Game and game-birds -- Spain
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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to depict, or forartist to discover. And the natives—the light-framed,lithe mountaineers, clad in the short majo jackets, tightknee-breeches and cloth gaiters, with smart sky-blue waist-coats, brass-buttoned, and crimson fajas: the womenenveloped in l)rilliant manias of grass-green or scarlet, andwith short petticoats that displayed rounded limbs, bare tothe knee—verily we seemed to have fallen upon some sur-viving vestige of Goth or Moor, all unknown to the world,hidden away in these recesses of the sierra.
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I Ilatc X-X. i.,i„e i4). TOE HOiME OF THE IBEX—A SKETCH IN THE SIERRA DE UREUOS. IBEK-SHOOTING IN SPAIN. 141 Such things, however, had but a platonic interest formen weary, drenched and travel-worn: and a terribleshock remained in store, when, upon a low paneless barn,we deciphered, in hieroglyphic symbols, the word ponada.At the moment of our ol)serving the ill-boding sign, a pigwas in the act of entering the portals. Nothing, however, remained but to make the best of it.The cold was intense, and in the deluge of rain and sleetoutside, it was impossible to erect our tent, even hada level site existed. We had with us, however, on thiscampaign, a genius, and with magic skill Vicente trans-formed the uncouth den : order replaced chaos: ourbedsteads were erected, basins, towels, soap, even chairsand a table appeared as by legerdemain : while a savouryoUa with two brace of quarter-pound trout from the burnbelow, and a stoup of good red wine, stood before us. We soon had the local hunt