=The last echoes.=--My wanderings through Spain filled me with the joy of life. She had become my second home. It was with a heavy heart that I left. “O follow me ye southern days ’Neath colder skies and paler stars. And fill my thoughts with golden rays!" The hour of departure had arrived.--It was a wonderful moonlight night in which the little Spanish steamer which was to bear me homewards sailed slowly out of Ferrol harbour. The moon cast a silver bridge over the water, and along it my thoughts fled back to other moonlight nights when she had often shown me the way in picturesque Spain. The lights along the coast shone like the eyes of anxious friends looking a last farewell before darkness closed their lids. And then the little ship ploughed homeward through the eternal waters with the eternal sky above us, and the old old song of the waves accompanied me back to my familiar home. * * * * * And now that days and weeks of cloudy skies hang heavily over my country where the sun is not so generous as in southern climes, my heart is filled with yearning for Spain, with nostalgia for the sun.--Then I look at my pictures, and we hold converse together, and re-live those unfettered days spent in wanderings in sun-kissed Spain. In this volume I send forth my sun harvest. May it cast its light in the hearts of many! May it tell of my love of Spain, and of my heartfelt thanks to her chivalrous people for all their kind hospitality! ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES AND PLACES Albarracin 192-194 Albufera 116 Alcala de Guadaira 71 Aldeanueva de la Vera 154 Algatocin 76 Alhambra 1-16, 22 Almazan 227 Alquezar 210-212 Andújar 44, 115 Antequera 64-66 Aranjuez 136-138 Arcos de la Frontera 48, 49, 72 Arranda de Duero 240 Autol 224, 225 Avila 165-169 Barcelona 200 Batuecas 260, 261, 263 Bielsa 213 Bilbao 284 Burgo de Osma 226 Burgos 234-238 Butron 277 Brachimañasee 216 Caceres 83, 84 Candelario 252, 253 Cangas de Onis 274 Carmona 43, 70 Castellbó 208 Castellfullit 204 Cave Dwellings 92-99 Cenaruza 282 Cepeda 155 Chorro 73 Ciudad Rodrigo 250, 251 Coca 184-187 Cordoba 50-60 Cuenca 120, 121 Daroca 195-197 Debotes Valley 207 Durango 279, 283 Ecija 68, 69 Elché 101-103 Elorrio 285 Escorial 129-135 Fuenterabia 298 Gerona 202, 203 Granada 1-25 Guadalajara 178-181 Guadalest 118 Guadix 100 Güejar-Sierra 77 Hermida 266 Hurdes 259 Jativa 111-113 Javea 108 Jerez de la Frontera 67 Jerica 191 La Alberca 254, 256, 257 Lagartera 150, 151 Madrid 126-128 Maladeta 219 Mañaria 278 Manzanera 42 Martos 74, 75 Medinaceli 176, 177 Mochagar 91 Mogarraz 258 Mombeltran 183 Monte Agudo 119 Montserrat 201 Niebla 80, 81 Nuria 206 Ondarroa 276 Orihuela 104-107 Oviedo 264, 265 Pancorbo 231-233 Pasages 291-296, 304 Peñafiel 182 Peña Montañesa 214 Pic de Aneto 217, 218 Pic du midi 216 Picos de Europa 266-274 Pontevedra 301 Potes 270-273