"In the afternoon, towards the fountain, along the road bordered with poplars which shake their silvered foliage, go groups of girls with their pitchers on their heads. Their rhythmical movements and their grace recall the Athenian canephoræ. This procession to the well lends to the huerta of Valencia something of a biblical character. The Fontana de la Reina is the pride of the huerta, condemned to drink the water of wells and the red and dirty liquid of the canals. It is esteemed as an ancient and valuable work. It has a square basin with walls of reddish stone. The water is below the soil. You reach the bottom by means of six green and slippery steps. Opposite the steps is a defaced bas-relief, probably a Virgin attended by angels--no doubt an ex-voto of the time of the Conquest. Laughter and chatter are not wanting round the well. The girls cluster round, eager to fill their pitchers but in no hurry to depart. They jostle each other on the steps, their petticoats gathered in between their legs, the better to lean forward and to plunge their vessels into the basin. The surface of the water is unceasingly troubled by the bubbles rising from the sandy bed, which is covered with weeds waving in the current." INDEX Abades, No. 6, 70 Abbad, Mohammed Ben, 22 Abdallah, Ahmed Ben, 21 Abd-el-Aziz, 19 Abd-ur-Rahman, 89 Abd-ur-Rahman III., 21 Abu-l-Walid, 115 Adra, 168 Ælii, 16 Ahmar, Mohammed al, 27, 113 Alarcos, 26 Albaicin, 148 Alcazaba, 129 Alcazares, 35 Alcazar Genil, 161 Alcoy, 190 Alfonso VI., 24, 25, 98 Alfonso X., 114 Alfonso the Battler, King, 189 Alfonso the Learned, 4, 181 Al Hakem II., 90 Alhama, 121 Alhambra, The, 124 Alicante, 189 Al Mansûr, 90 Almeria, 168 Almohades, 26, 30, 112 Almoravides, 26, 112, 194 Aragon, Don Jaime of, 179 Arfe, Juan de, 60, 96 Aurariola, 178 Az Zahara, 97 Barbuda, Don Martin de la, 102, 119 Baths, 143 Bekr, Abu, 179 Belludo, 145 Ben Hud, 27, 113 Biblioteca Colombina, 35 Boabdil, 121 Cadiz, 1 Cadiz, Marquis of, 121 Cæsar, Julius, 16 Campaña--_See_ Kempener Campillo, 160 Cano, Alonso, 66, 75, 155, 165 Caños de Carmona, 81 Capilla Real, 152 Cartagena, 182 Carthaginians, 3, 14, 15 Cartuja, 84, 158 Casa de Bustos Tavera, 70 Casa del Carbon, 147 Casa de los Tiros, 160 Casa de Pilatos, 66 Cathedral, 50, 151, 155, 165, 196 Cespedes, Pablo de, 75, 103 Charles V., 95 Cid Campeador, Ruy Diaz de Bivar, 112, 193 Colon, Fernando, 57 Columbus, Christopher, 56, 160 Cordova, 86 Cornejo, Duque, 95, 96 Coronel, Doña Maria, 38 Cortes, Hernando, 83 Court of the Lions, 137 Cuarto de Santo Domingo, 160 Dance of the Seises, 81 Dávalos, Leonor, 38 Delicias Gardens, 77 Dios, San Juan de, 156 Drake, Sir Francis, 4 Elche, 187 El Greco, 60 Enrique III., 119 Ermengild, 18, 193 Ermita de San Sebastian, 160 "Esperandola del Cielo," 149 Essex, Earl of, 5 Exilona, 19 Fadrique, Don, 46 Fair of Seville, 79 Ferdinand and Isabella, 121 Fernandez, Alejo, 85