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Title: Rambles in sunny Spain
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Ober, Frederick A(lbion), 1849- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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n, yet there are a thousand other featuresworth observing. For instance, one may trace here the completedevelopment of the gun and musket, from the first rude matchlockand arquebuse to the perfected rifle of the present day. We wereinterested greatly in some richly chased and gold-inlaid guns of twocenturies ago, with carved stocks of elegant shapes. In the Naval Museum, contained in a separate building, is acomplementary collection of ancient and modern cannon, models ofthe most famous ships and war vessels of time past and time present,including those great galleons that voyaged to and fro between theOrient and Mexico, Vera Cruz and San Domingo and Spain. Thegreat treasure-ships, once so eagerly sought, and sometimes cap-tured, by Drake and Hawkins, and men-of-war that took part in theconflicts of Trafalgar and St. Vincent, — these are all brought be-fore us in the fine models in the Naval Museum. Going even fartherback than these galleons take us, into the history of Spain in the
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SOME MIDSUMMER DAYS IN MADRID. IO New World, we may see in this museum paintings of the discoveryof San Salvador by Columbus, and portraits of Colon, Cortez, DeSoto, Balboa, and Pizarro. A priceless memento of Columbus is preserved in an anteroomby itself, — no less than the great chart of his voyages, prepared byroyal order, the earliest chart of the New World discoveries. Thechart that Columbus himself drew,and took with him on his firstvoyage, is in the Columbina li-brary at Seville, as well as hisjournal. We are reminded ofColumbus in every part of Spain.In Seville is the slab that oncecovered his remains, and other xmemorials; in Santa Fe (Vega of ~-the Granada) he last visited the Jqueen before setting out uponhis voyage ; in the Alhambra hehad an interview with his sover-eigns, it is said; from Palos hetook his departure, on his firstvoyage ; at Cordova he passedyears of waiting, while the con-quest of Granada was going on.Madrid, at that time, was un-known, but here, as the

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