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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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Plate IV. DAUGHTKRS OF AXDALUCIA. Page 19. A NIGHT AT A POSADA. 19 A Night at a Posada. The wajfarer has been traveUing all clay across thescrub-clacl wastes, fragrant with rosemary and wild thyme,without perhaps seeing a human being beyond a strayshepherd or a band of nomad gypsies encamped amidst thegreen palmettos. Towards night he reaches some smallvillage where he seeks the rude jxjuada. He sees his horseprovided with a good feed of barley and as much brokenstraw as he can eat. He is himself regaled with one dish—probably the oUa, or a guiso (stew) of kid, either of them,as a rule, of a rich red-brick hue from the colour of thered pepper, or capsicum in the chorizo or sausage, which isan important (and potent) component of most Spanishdishes. The steaming olla will j)resently be set on a lowtable before the large wood-fire, and, with the best of crispwhite bread and wine, the traveller enjoys his meal incompany with any other guest that ma) have arrived atthe time—be he mulet

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